Mutyala Reddy struggled to find words in a language that he isn't fluent with, trying to answer how he was feeling as his son, Nitish Kumar Reddy, India's new Test sensation, neared a landmark that almost every Indian visualises in their head at some point. Reddy’s journey in this series had been dramatic enough: the manner of his call-up to the Test squad without boasting of eye-catching returns, his selection in the playing XI, his enterprising debut at Perth, his selection over Shubman Gill in Melbourne, and India’s capitulation in flat-batting conditions, leaving him with the responsibility of taking India past the follow-on mark.