A night of undulating twists and turns culminated in a thrilling six-wicket victory, Hardik Pandya’s penultimate-ball boundary extending India’s unbeaten run in Twenty20 Internationals on home soil to three and a half years.

At various stages of the decider at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, it seemed as if Australia would emulate their series victory of February 2019 – that’s the last time India were beaten in their own backyard – until Suryakumar Yadav’s surreal batting and Pandya’s calmness at the death poured cold water on those designs.