As the country of Australia slept on Sunday night, Aaron Finch's side did something special. In a T20, yes, but something that has the potential to carry through into something more.
Sunday's T20 in Visakhapatnam could have gone either way. Australia had it, lost it, had it again, really had it, basically lost it, and then won it.
Arguably, most Australian XIs across the last two years would have let it slip. Thanks to Pat Cummins and Jhye Richardson at the death, Australia won it.
With the result, Australia snatched a confidence-boosting away win for an outfit long searching for its best white-ball version of itself.
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There was previous history in Cummins' mind - back in 2012, a 19-year-old Cummins came out at No. 9 and (with two balls remaining and seven to win) sent Abdul Razzaq into the stands with an ugly shot to silence a raucous Dubai crowd.
Australia lost the match in a super over after Cummins got out with scores level, but in his fourth-ever T20 international, the then teenager dragged his side closer to where they were going to end up.
Playing in his first T20 international in exactly two years on Sunday, Cummins came out with the unenivable task of grabbing 14 to win off the final over.
With Richardson, they got there, and ran two off the final ball to silence a raucous Visakhapatnam crowd.
Glenn Maxwell - who top-scored in Australia's run chase with a sedate 43-ball 56 - praised the bowlers for getting it done with the bat.
"A lot of the times when you come over here, or when you're on overseas trips and you get close games, you lose them so often," Maxwell told reporters after the match.
"The home crowd can get behind the home team and you can lose. It can just put your momentum in a different way and the days you're stuck in the hotel become longer than they are.
"To win a game like this, by the way we got ourselves in trouble by the last over, we probably should have lost and if it wasn't for Pat Cummins and Jhye Richardson pulling something out of the hat."
Maxwell had particular praise for Allan Border Medallist Cummins, who kept Richardson calm at the other end.
"I did mention to Finchy, if anyone could go out there, face their first ball in the last over and get us 14, it's probably Pat Cummins.
"He can do anything. He does it quite regularly. I think I remember him in UAE a few years ago. Think he came out and hit a first ball six. We only needed one to win and he hit it in the air.
"He got the job done tonight, but for him to keep a cool head, hit a gap on the off side against a guy who hits three out of six yorkers is just real good batting.
"And Jhye Richardson as well, at the end. For a young player to do that, I'm sure he'd have loved the opportunity to bat with Pat at the end. You see that little cuddle at the end. It was beautiful."
Australia's 2018 was as turbulent as it gets, and white-ball cricket has been a dirty word for some time.
Prior to Sunday's result, since the beginning of 2017, Australia had won just 20 of 52 completed white-ball fixtures - eight of 29 ODIs, and 12 of 24 T20Is.
Desperate for any kind of momentum, the Visakhapatnam win could be the spark that lights Australia's fire towards the World Cup.
For Maxwell, these are the wins that "bring the whole group together".
"It's been a hard eight or nine months of limited-overs cricket for us," Maxwell said.
"To have a result like this first game on tour is great for our confidence and something we can hopefully ride and gain momentum.
"Winning momentum is great but losing momentum, as we've found out is pretty hard to turn around.
"Hopefully we can start off our World Cup preparations on a good foot."
