One of the great feelings for a cricketer has to be to come to India and shush the crowd, be it with a wicket or with a boundary. Not only does it give them pleasure, it also confirms to them they are controlling the game. To Pat Cummins belong the now-immortal words: "nothing more satisfying than hearing a big crowd go silent".

Daryl Mitchell has done that quite often. In the World Cup semi-final at the imposing Wankhede Stadium, a couple of days before Cummins said what he said, you could hear trains pull into the nearby Churchgate station as he hit nine fours and seven sixes in his 134. The crowd had the last laugh that night as for the second time in that tournament, Mitchell's hundred against India fell short of the desired match result. They also knew they had dodged a bullet there.

As New Zealand finally won an ODI series in India for the first time, Mitchell silenced the crowd 39 times in his 319 balls in the middle, hitting 31 fours and eight sixes in his series tally of 352. So self-effacing is Mitchell that when asked how it felt to hush the crowd up, he said: "We are quite used to that [in New Zealand]. That's pretty normal for us. Nice and quiet on the grass banks."