Rain could not prevent India from winning the third Test against Australia yesterday. But the wet weather did manage to thwart an Indian's ambition of witnessing an India victory at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Shailendra Kirtikar, 56, a Singapore-based wealth manager's planned holiday included watching the first four days of the Test match. Had Pat Cummins not played out of his skin to score 61 unbeaten runs on the penultimate day of the Test, Kirtikar would have ended his break on an ideal note and left for his Sunday afternoon Melbourne-Singapore flight satisfied with the thought that he saw India's third Test win in the Victorian city in 71 years of the rivalry.