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It is fitting that a bowler known as 'Boom' was the man to blow a hole in England's ambitions of winning the Test series against India.
Jasprit Bumrah's searing yorkers on day five at the Oval led India to a first win in south London since 1971.
The 27-year-old's run-up may resemble a dressage horse being put through its paces and his bowling arm may not come through at a classical angle, but the fastest Indian pace bowler to 100 Test wickets has illustrated that you don't need a purist's action to be successful on the biggest stage.
Jasprit Bumrah won the fourth Test for India with a brilliant spell after lunch on day five
The India fast bowler celebrates after his yorker bowled England batsman Jonny Bairstow
Shane Bond, Bumrah's bowling coach at the Mumbai Indians, spoke highly of the Indian seamer
A fact that Shane Bond, Bumrah's bowling coach at the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League for the past seven years, knows only too well.
'We've had seven years together and you get to know someone pretty well,' Bond tells Sportsmail.
'He was this wiry, scrawny kid who had just come off a knee reconstruction and didn't play more than a couple of games in my first season (in the IPL). The next thing he's playing for India and he's now one of the best in the world.
'There are certain things in his action that make him unique and that's also what makes him so great. People mention his run-up and it's probably too loose a term to actually call it that, it's more of a stuttering walk.'
And although Bond laughs as he admits to sometimes mimicking Bumrah's idiosyncrasies in Mumbai's IPL warm-ups —
