Praveen lets the ball do all the talking in his debut match

His press conference was a moment when he could have let out a tirade against umpire Daryl Harper,who gave half a dozen dubious decisions,but all he did,after the proverbial minute and a half,was to raise his hands and ask journalists if he could leave now.

There were no poignant insights for the pen-hackers as to how he always was viewed as a one-day wonder,a new-ball specialist who couldn’t bowl his 11th over even though his first class statistics had 13 fivers to show from 39 games,including figures of 32-8-68-8 in 2008 Ranji Trophy Elite Group final.

There were no theatrics,how it hurt him not to be on the plane to South Africa last winter; how the missed World Cup gave him sleepless nights; how cruelly Harper hacked him in full flight when he had 3 from 14 deliveries in the first

innings.

There were no words of gratitude for the fate too which provided the overstay in the Caribbean after the one-dayers in light of the late pull-out by Zaheer Khan and S Sreesanth or for that matter,the last-minute benching of Munaf Patel who,but for his elbow injury,would have been considered ahead of Praveen.