India's aggressive play which turned a dead Test match against Bangladesh at Kanpur into a win that gained fame in the same time it took to achieve it, has become a talking point across the cricketing globe. And that includes England, where on Wednesday Lawrence Booth, the editor of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack stated that September 30 (the fourth day of the Kanpur Test) “could be the day cricket changed for ever.”

In his column The Top Spin, Booth wrote: “All it took was 34.4 overs on the fourth afternoon of the second Test at Kanpur, in which time India scored 285 for nine against Bangladesh, unleashing the full shock and awe of their batting arsenal. At 8.22 runs an over, it was Test cricket’s quickest innings (minimum: 50 balls), and comes as England fly to Pakistan — the scene, two years ago, of their own epoch-defining 506 for four on the first day of the series at Rawalpindi. The runs that day came at a rate of 6.75, which England upped to 7.36 in their second innings as the Bazball revolution achieved its first overseas scalp. Afterwards, we could hardly move at the back of the media centre for all the England batsmen signing their name on the honours board.”