India, Oct. 27 -- Your wish has come true. Abhishek Sharma and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi opening for India isn't a pipedream anymore. It's an outrageous 43-ball 133-run partnership taunting bowlers from a scorecard that makes scant sense despite repeated readings. Fifty in 14 balls, 100 in 30, a target of 199 annexed in-you read that right-13.2 overs, it was shock-and-awe batting, no bowling opposition can prepare to hide from.

Sooryavanshi missed out on a deserving fifty, but Abhishek motored to a 35-ball hundred-still his second quickest-as India couldn't have carved a more dominant way to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series at Wellington on Tuesday.

No target matters on days like these, but India making a habit out of c...