Unlike Hulkenberg, who set his fastest lap on one short run, Alonso's was set during a number of formidable-looking runs, in which he produced a set of consistently quick times around the same pace as his fastest lap time.
Hoggard was in his element and he first struck when Sehwag, not for the first time in the series, failed to get his gloves out of the way of a short-pitched ball which then looped into Shah's lap at first slip.