On a track where survival was difficult, Ganguly managed to control the whole latter half of the Indian innings. When he got out, close to stumps, eight wickets had fallen and he knew he had to take complete charge and farm the strike. Ganguly compared this innings to his comeback knock at the Wanderers in December 2006, and said the conditions here perhaps made this one a better knock. However, there won't be a bigger tribute to this innings than to say he successfully took the bar one level higher than where Laxman had left it.