Dinesh Karthik floats with the serenity of Totoro. The happiness comes not only from his own point of view but comes from a powerful empathy with Parthiv Patel who can now feel the real relief of being freed from his period of torturous bondage as Indian wicketkeeper. Dinesh has saved his friend, and stowed him safely away on the cat bus.

It was also great to watch Nathan Hauritz being scruffled into the pitch by his team mates after taking his maiden test wicket with only his third test ball. He dissappeared in a massive ring of hair tussling hardened test players and came out after some time had passed looking like a mischevious little brownie. Onya lad!