Some things in life never happen. The sun never rises from the west, politicians never stop manipulating voters, and India don’t lose 3-0 in Test cricket at home. Scratch out the last one because the Black Caps didn’t just whitewash India, they clinically outplayed them in every department of the game on three different surfaces.

To win Test matches, you need to pick 20 wickets, but to claim 20 Wickets, the batters need to provide the bowlers with the cushion of runs. For New Zealand, that cushion came from an unlikely source, Man of the Series William Alexander Young. 244 runs in six innings doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you take into consideration the nature of the wickets, the opposition bowlers and the crucial situations they were scored in, you will realise their weight.