Before you could say Rip van Winkle, India lost three for six in 22 deliveries to squander all the initiative wrested through hard grind and immense self-discipline, allowing the hosts to take the Boxing Day Test by the scruff of the neck.

For some reason, with 20 minutes still left after Jaiswal’s exit, India had sent Akash Deep, who surprisingly didn’t last long after Boland’s well-directed short one at the body was stabbed to leg gully to cap a below-par day for him.

Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal were doing a brilliant rescue act for India, putting on a century stand, but the latter's run-out triggered a mini-collapse in the fourth Test at the MCG