The duo added 791 runs for SRH that year, putting on four century stands, including a record 185-run partnership against Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore. Warner and Bairstow had, before that tournament, never batted together before, but it was, Warner said, one of those partnerships that just clicked.

“It was really bizarre because me and Jonny, we’ve never played with each other or against each other,” Warner told commentator Harsha Bhogle on Cricbuzz in Conversation. “We didn’t really know each other off the field. But as soon as we had the first net session and the first hit out, it was almost like we knew each other’s game so well.

“But in today’s environment, with IPL and all this franchise [cricket], there’s going to be a place and a time where you are going to be potentially playing with these people. You don’t really have the time anymore to not be friends. You have to be mates away from the game. That’s just how it is.

“But when you walk out there and you’re representing your country, that [friendship] goes out of the window. It’s more of a, ‘alright, you know we’re mates off the field, but this is how we’re going to play’.”