After dismissing Sehwag with a ball that moved away, the 25-year-old wasn’t going to miss his first big date. It was an intriguing contest as the debutant with nothing to lose was having a go at stalwarts under pressure. And, as it usually happens in such contests these days, the cocky youngster got the better of the cautious seniors.

Both Dravid and Tendulkar were trapped lbw. While Dravid got a delivery that pitched outside off-stump and came in sharply, the one that got Tendulkar was pitched on middle-and-off. Even if Prasad doesn’t get any international wicket after today, he can flaunt that his first three Test wickets were that of Sehwag, Dravid and Tendulkar.

Then, Ganguly was out edging Murali to the slips. The embarrassment of the stalwarts was complete when Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan put on 50 for the final wicket. Indian cricket’s mid-life crisis was never as much as it was today.