With the series all but wrapped up, it’s about time to reflect on what the differences between the sides have been. Two stick out: India’s ability to make big scores, and the depth of each sides’ bowling attack, and day three of the final Test displayed both.

Rarely have India truly blown Australia away with the ball, and in fact, the hosts have crossed 20 more often than the tourists during the series, 35 times to 32. But their average when they do pass 20 is just 42.64 compared to India’s 62.30.

India have five hundreds, while Australia’s high score in the series was Marcus Harris’ 79 on day three at Sydney. Three others passed 20 without crossing 38, while Peter Handscomb and Pat Cummins are also in the 20s overnight. It’s Harris who has emerged with the most credit of any Australian batsmen from the series, with Mark Taylor saying his name is “heavily pencilled in” for next summer’s Ashes, and Ricky Ponting going one step further, labelling him “a lock”.

“I have played enough cricket to have decent enough knowledge and in Test cricket, I will need a little more time perhaps to improve. The more you play with the red ball, the more you can improve.”

More than just an unprecedented series win in Australia, India will come out of this tour with the knowledge that they have two batsmen they can rely on overseas, and a varied, deep bowling attack that can challenge on any surface. This may well be the moment when they turned from being simply the best side in the world into one of the all-time great Test teams.

Australia meanwhile might feel they know their frontline bowling attack and the identity of one of their openers. Whether those players are just the best available or actually good enough for Australia to compete is another matter.