Umesh Yadav is bowled by a perfect Pat Cummins delivery after lunch. Again, the bowler’s front foot over the line. Again, slanting into Rahane’s pads at pace.

The third over of the spell was the kicker. In his second spell Cummins immediately saw David Warner drop Rahane at slip. Cummins took a break but couldn’t switch off as captain, as Thakur kept riding his luck with swishes for runs. Cummins’s fourth over saw Rahane nick four and top‑edge six. One of those inexplicable ones – straight in, straight down. On cue Cummins’s third over brought the length ball, the edge to gully … and Cameron Green dropped it cold. It looked as if Thakur’s day would be done shortly.

He hit India’s lower‑order smasher twice on the arm, once on the glove, and beat his edge again. Cummins started his work at the far end by jagging balls inwards, then straight, then short, beating Thakur in one over, beating him up in the next. In the first over of the third day, Scott Boland smashed up KS Bharat’s stumps with a perfect delivery off the seam, then had Thakur dropped at third slip. Cummins didn’t review a not-out lbw favouring Ravindra Jadeja, but that one would also have hit the stumps and was also found to be a no-ball. On the previous day, Cummins had India’s No 5, Ajinkya Rahane, lbw, then had it overturned for overstepping the crease.

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