Though rain spoilt India's party in Sydney by saving Australia from the humiliation of losing the fourth Test and going down 1-3 at home, it couldn't protect the defending world champions from losing Border-Gavaskar trophy against the young Virat Kohli led Indian side that completely outclassed the hosts in every section of the game.
While it was Cheteshwar Pujara's brilliance that always kept India at the forefront, everytime the visitors were asked to bat first against the mighty Aussie attack. The combined impactful performance by bowling unit equally complemented to script historic win.
On each of the three occasions when India started proceedings, Pujara proved his worth and batted sensibly throughout the day to cancel Australia's early advantage, which kept coming to them as a favor following the poor performance by Indian openers KL Rahul and Murali Vijay.
The talismanic middle order specialist, who was dropped from the playing XI of the first Test against England at Edgbaston in August 2018, shows the great amount of temperament and continued to make bowlers work for his price wicket.
He was clearly the difference between the two sides because apart from him all the other batsmen from both the sides combined looked clueless about the skill and technique that is required to produce match-winning performances in the longest format of the game.
The number three batsmen clearly enjoyed the tag of being the dark horse in the eleven, as the entire focus was over Indian skipper Virat Kohli, who came into the series as the player to watch out for after his record-breaking performance in England and also the last time India traveled Australia.
But since game one, when India was struggling at 56 for four in Adelaide and the hosts' bowlers were in complete flow to seize the moment, the new wall of Indian lineup stood tall and added valuable runs with the tail enders to lead India to challenge total.
It was his 123 runs innings on the first day of the first Test that shifted the momentum and paved way for India to counterattack and bring unsettled hosts under pressure.
It was his individual master class that helped India to beat Australia in the first Test by 31 runs and go 1-0 up in the series. It was the also the first time that India won the series opener in overseas conditions.
However, the early lead couldn't last long for the visitors, as Australia despite Kohli's ton and Shami's six wickets in second innings, leveled series 1-1 by winning the second game in Perth.
But the momentum that India gained after winning the first Test continued to help India in the next two crunch games.
Pujara brought his second hundred of the series in Boxing Day Test and helped India to retain the trophy. His 106 at Melbourne was another classic example of how to bat in Test match cricket, he nearly batted for five sessions and consumed 319 balls. While his 193 runs in Sydney threw Tim Paine boys completely out of the contest.
In together, he compiled 521 runs in seven innings which includes three hundred and was the leading run-scorer of the series.
Apart from him, dynamic Rishabh Pant, who was in headlines throughout the series because of his verbal banters behind stumps showed his skill and assemble 350 runs.
But this first series win in 70 years wasn't just limited to Pujara's heroics that kept Aussies at bay every time he gets into the middle of the ground. But also about Indian pace attack, which continued to impress overseas.
Under sensational Jasprit Bumrah's leadership, combined with Ishant Sharma's experience and Mohammed Shami's brilliance, the trio didn't let the hosts bat freely in the entire series.
The three of them combined were such dominant that for the first time in all these years, Australian batsmen were seen struggling in their home conditions. And none of the Australian batsmen was able to reach three figures in the entire series.
While in the final match, playing his maiden game of the series china man Kuldeep Yadav bags five-wicket haul and restrict Australia for 300 runs, enforcing them to play follow-on for the first time in 31 years.