When India last played five Tests on these shores some 32 years ago, the great all-rounder Kapil Dev produced an unforgettable one-two punch on a steamy Brisbane morning.

He bent the second new ball late and wound between Allan Border’s bat and pad to take the bail. Next came a devilish away swing that hit Dean Jones hard. But the pièce de résistance was still to come.

Jones next ball shaped to swing away and held his line to clear off stump. “Goodnight Charlie, he’s on his way!” exclaimed Tony Greig in the comments section.

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Jones’ bereft reaction, with a disbelieving eye on the pitch, came to mind as India captain Jasprit Bumrah put Perth’s biggest-ever Test match crowd on the edge of their seats with a display of steady bowling that rattled Australia.

India’s roll for 150 would only ever be half the story on this day, or throughout this Border-Gavaskar series.

After Bumrah’s surgical opening spell of the contest devastated the Australian top four, the narrative of the encounter veered far away from some of the one-sided Test battles glimpsed in Australia of late. What Shamar Joseph had revealed at the Gabba in Januarylocked Bumrah on in November.

Read Dan Berttig’s full analysis here.