Tarun Gupta chose Australia, a least in part, for the cricket. That, along with the warm weather and the TV images of people enjoying the World Series Cricket beamed to his home in India, was enough to make the young graduate decide to do his MBA in this country, rather than the United States or United Kingdom.

At the time, the businessman who at the start of June took over as CEO of Stockland, Australia’s largest listed residential developer, had never lived outside India, but was used to moving around. Gupta’s father was a policeman and his youngest son grew up in a series of towns and cities in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state.