When he opened up his eponymous BoundaryRoad gallery in north London he started a process that would lead to the UK becoming one of the most exciting, innovative and open places in the world for an artist to live and work.
As soon as Karthik square cut James Anderson to the boundary in the first over from the Radcliffe Road End it was clear there was unlikely to be a serious challenge to India's victory parade.
Moeen Ali, who had earlier hit 51, his first one-day half-century of the season at New Road, ran round the deep midwicket boundary to brilliantly hold onto a chance from Chris Nash.