Did those couple of specially arranged Tendulkar Tests in India really happen? Is it some myth that millions of Indians openly mourned the departure of their cricketing god?
Have the two defeats by an innings, both in less than three days, actually gone into the record books as the West Indies’ first in successive Tests since 2000 in Australia?
Did India’s batsmen strike 113 fours and eight sixes, a rate of a boundary every other over, in the 237.4 overs they supposedly batted, and was it a fact that two of the three West Indies’ fast bowlers failed to register a single maiden between them in 51 overs, the other just three in his 18?
Were the two terminal fete match swipes and his cut back to 21 barren overs by the captain,