In the shadows of stumps Jason Gillespie added his second delicious off-cutter to remove his second batsman of the day to shouldered arms.
On the low, dusty dry pitches, normally graveyards for seamers, he persevered in the stifling heat bowling off-cutters and holding up one end.
The stinging off-cutter was Walsh's trademark delivery.
Mixing swinging deliveries with some excellent off-cutters, he ripped through the middle order and finished with excellent figures of 6-9 from seven overs.
He surged in from the Paddington end, maintained discipline, tried nothing too fancy and utilised an off-cutter in the way that Fred Trueman did in his dotage.