Rahul Dravid has just endured the most unforgettable two weeks of his life but the Indian captain is not getting carried away.
On October 11, Dravid was blessed with his first-born son. Two days later, he was appointed India's captain in place of Sourav Ganguly, the country's most successful skipper.
If Dravid was under pressure, he hid it well as India pulled off a rousing 152-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international at Nagpur on Tuesday.
The captain himself led from the front in wife Vijeta's hometown with a blistering unbeaten 85 off 63 balls that earned him the man of the match award.
Dravid, 32, himself admitted the dream was unlikely to last forever.
Dravid knows Sri Lanka, ranked second in the one-day rankings behind Australia against India's seventh, will come back strongly in the remaining six games.
In April, India squandered a 2-0 lead to lose the remaining four matches to Pakistan and Dravid hopes the embarrassment will not be repeated.
He also takes pains to rubbish suggestions that the team seemed to gel better under his leadership than it had done in the recent past.
Indian cricket was rocked by controversy in the last few months following a damaging row between Ganguly and coach Greg Chappell, the former Australian captain and batting great who took over the Indian team in June.
It followed defeats in two one-day finals in September, by Sri Lanka in Colombo and by New Zealand in Harare.
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