The media does tend to focus more on batters who have gone back from these shores with a century. It’s a hard place to get one against India’s assorted match-winners across bowling types.

Overseas batters, rightly or wrongly, employ different variations of the sweep to counter the hosts’ spin troika. It can be a hit and miss shot at the best of times, even on the most docile of surfaces. It’s loaded with risk, like trying to play Minesweeper on hard mode. So, what Ravindra does is employ his rubber wrists rather than use the conventional sweep.

He’s also adept going downtown, no doubt because of the many summers he trained in India when school back home was in recess. Now, this isn’t to say he doesn’t play across the line. He does. But when he does swipe, he has the air of a man on a dating app who knows what he’s doing.

You would need that confidence while going at over run-a-ball against R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav. In total, he faced 95 balls against those three and plundered 101 (30 off 35 against Ashwin, 30 off 21 against Kuldeep and 41 off 39 against Jadeja).

To be fair to the three spinners, it’s easier to attack them when their lines and lengths are informed by defensive fields and a wicket where it wasn’t doing much. It will be very different in Pune.

If Ravindra can master the conditions again, the visitors will know for sure what their decade will be like. A moppy-haired, goofy-looking left-hander from Wellington.Rising star Rachin stakes his claim as New Zealand’s lodestar

The youngster impressed with his century in Bengaluru and is expected to play a vital role for Black Caps going forward

If Ravindra can master the conditions again, the visitors will know for sure what their decade will be like. A moppy-haired, goofy-looking left-hander from Wellington.