When the Beats By Dre Studio fireworks exploded into the Adelaide air after this match, marking Australia Day, it was easy to interpret it as an ironic celebration, for England had won a one-day cricket match at last.
For Jonathan Trott, however, this was merely the maintaining of a continuum, another day on a remarkably successful cricket tour; it also kept up his proud record against Australia, against whom he has now hit four centuries in his still embryonic international career.
When he was included in England's World Cup party earlier this month he probably felt something of a spare part. He was the extra batsman, to come in if injury befell one of the more fashionable players, the powerful and egocentric Kevin Pietersen, the exquisitely gifted Ian Bell or the impish genius that is said to be Eoin Morgan.
But these three have been keenly disappointing, as if in intense competition to be dropped. And now the ugly duckling in the line-up, while never promising to mature into a graceful swan, does have a good chance of making it into the actual team when England open their World Cup campaign with a match against Holland in Nagpur on 22 February.
In the Ashes series his total of 445 runs was bettered only by Alastair Cook. He had an average of 89.00 and scored two centuries. Now he is England's most dependable batsman in this ODI series.
This century followed his unbeaten 84 in the previous match in Sydney. But while there he got bogged down by the constant rattle of wickets at the other end and scored at little more than a run an over at one stage, here he maintained a decent tempo (his strike rate was 80.95, against his Cheap Beats By Dre 70.59 in Sydney).
There is no longer room for the traditional sheet-anchor role in modern one-day cricket. All batsmen are now required to score at a decent clip. But if Trott can provide reliability and stability there is surely room for him, even if he does not provide the pyrotechnics that illuminated this beautiful ground tonight.
He followed his hundred by taking two wickets in a niggardly seven overs as he and Paul Collingwood took the pace off the ball. Trott said