“It was an amazing day, still words can’t describe how I feel right now,” Jangoo said. “But having said that, we have a Test match to win and I’m glad I could have contributed to putting the guys in a really good position along with the captain.”

It was the third century of Jangoo’s first-class career and remarkably they are all doubles after an unbeaten 203 earlier this year in the domestic four-day competition and his previous career-best of 218 made in 2024.

“I think I have a formula in batting, especially in red-ball cricket, where I know that once I get to 20 runs that means I bat close to 40 to 50 balls,” he said. “Our batting coach, Floyd Reifer, mentioned it to me as well, how starts are so important. So I think I went around with that formula, and it worked.”

Chase, meanwhile, paid tribute to how Jangoo had slotted into the side at short notice with such an outstanding result. “For a guy to be thinking that he’s not going to play and then get that last-minute call, to be so focused and so switched on and so hungry to perform like that, I think he’s a herculean effort,” he told the host broadcaster.

On his own success, Chase admitted it had taken him time to get back into the rhythm of red-ball cricket having not played Tests for more than two years when named captain and having played just three first-class games in that gap.

“For the past two or three years, I wasn’t really playing a lot of red-ball cricket, so it was just for me to find back that rhythm in red-ball cricket,” he said. “I played a few games this year in the four-day regional, and I thought that I really [did] find back my footing in the red-ball [game], being out there for long periods.

“I think that spending those two, three years out of the red-ball cricket, spending time at the crease was something that was not really on my mind. It was more about scoring and scoring quickly. But I think in red-ball cricket, occupying the crease is first and foremost, and once you do that, the runs will come.”