Ten balls, 14 runs, two outrageous sixes. It was over in a hurry, but Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's maiden international innings was enough to prove that his India career will not be.
It was only a cameo, but Sooryavanshi demonstrated with a single shot that his unique approach will not change because he is wearing blue rather than pink. The Indian shirt and the expectations of 1.4 billion people can weigh heavy; for Sooryavanshi, it simply provided him with another opportunity to hit a world-class fast bowler for six.
Has any international debut been so eagerly awaited? Sooryavanshi is only 15 years and 99 days old, the youngest man to play for India by some margin. Yet it has been abundantly clear for a long time that this day was coming; his record-shattering IPL season left India's selectors feeling as though they had no choice but to pick him. Sanju Samson, the player of the tournament during their title winning T20 World Cup campaign, had to make way.
Sooryavanshi is such a precocious talent that it is hard to believe he can only be 15. Many have therefore chosen not to, highlighting the now-infamous interview he gave three years ago suggesting he is 18 months older than his birth certificate does. It is irrelevant: he has already achieved things that nobody else can match, whether they are 15, 17, or 35.
But to watch him interact with his team-mates is to see a boy among men, Sooryavanshi is not allowed to change with them under safeguarding rules, and his parents were given dispensation to accompany him on tour. After he was handed his India cap - which he briefly struggled to fit on his head - Ishan Kishan squeezed his cheeks like an uncle playing with his nephew.
When Sooryavanshi walked out to the middle at Emirates Old Trafford, 45 minutes before the toss, to the sound of airhorns from the early arrivals in the stands, he crouched at each end of the pitch with his eyes closed. These visualisation drills - picturing himself facing the opposition attack - have already become a consistent feature of his preparation.
Even Sooryavanshi would have struggled to envisage the shot he played off the first ball he faced from Jofra Archer: he stepped outside leg stump, giving himself room to access the shorter off-side boundary, and when Archer followed him with a good-length ball at 88mph/141kph, Sooryavanshi yanked it over his right shoulder for six.
It was half-pull, half-sweep, and flew into the stands at fine leg where a youngish Lancashire member in an olive shirt attempted to catch it. He immediately learned just how hard this teenager hits the ball, shaking his hand to try and get rid of the stinging. Archer glared briefly towards Sooryavanshi, then walked back to his mark.
He had joined an elite club, along with Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins, in having the first ball that he had bowled to Sooryavanshi hit for six, though Archer's case was slightly different. He has bowled at him extensively in the Rajasthan Royals nets; when he was asked how to get him out this season, he smiled and said: "I'll tell you after the IPL."
He recovered immediately: Archer rushed Sooryavanshi with the follow-up, cranking the pace up to 90mph/144kph, before he successfully dug out a 91mph/146kph yorker to mid-off. Abhishek Sharma was flying at the other end, but the thousands of India fans in the stands - and many of the England ones - had come to watch the boy from Bihar instead.
Manchester is a city filled with Indian cricketing history. Lancashire have a long-standing Indian connection dating back to the days of Farokh Engineer, while Old Trafford was the scene of Sachin Tendulkar's first international hundred in 1990. Fittingly, it was Tendulkar's record that Sooryavanshi broke when he became India's youngest-ever player on Saturday.
Sooryavanshi was back on strike at the start of Josh Tongue's second over, having failed to lay a bat on the first three balls that he had faced from him (including a wide past his hip). He took a moment to adjust to the extra bounce as consecutive deliveries flew past his top edge, and his first run as an India player came when he inside-edged to short fine leg.
But Tongue, Sooryavanshi's fellow debutant, made the mistake of changing his plan. He is an inexperienced T20 bowler - he has played fewer games in the format that Sooryavanshi - and could not conceal his offcutter. Sooryavanshi picked it out of the hand, and heaved it towards the on-site hotel at deep midwicket, comfortably clearing the shorter boundary.
It seemed, just briefly, as though Sooryavanshi was about to unleash another classic on England, but he was out moments later. It took a clever, brave piece of bowling from Will Jacks: his first ball to Sooryavanshi was full and flighted at 49mph/78kph, and nudged to mid-on; he fired his second through at 58mph/93kph.
After resisting the temptation of the first ball, Sooryavanshi came charging down, looking to hit Jacks through the off side. But he was done for pace, and toppled over onto his backside as he lost balance while trying to get his back foot down before Jos Buttler whipped the bails off. England looked relieved while celebrating, in full knowledge of Sooryavanshi's potential.
This was a reminder of the challenge that Sooryavanshi faces compared to debutants of yesteryear. Several England players - including Jacks, who bowled five balls to him in May - had come up against him previously; all of them had studied footage to inform their plans to dismiss him. If any vulnerability creeps into his game, then international teams will expose it.
Those thoughts can wait for now. It was only 14 off 10 balls, and merely a footnote in the context of a gripping, oscillating game seized by Jacob Bethell's perfectly paced 76 not out. Yet most of the 16,047 fans in Manchester on Saturday afternoon will remember it more than anything as the day that they caught the first glimpse of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in international cricket.