Andy Murray may have been on court for all three of his team’s wins during the Davis Cup semi-final but any notion that Great Britain is a one man team was dismissed over the weekend.

Admittedly they could not have come close to the achievement of reaching the final for the first time in 37 years and establishing themselves as favourites to go to Belgium and win the competition for the first time in close to 80 years without the world number three in their ranks.

Furthermore the disparity between the third best player in the world’s status as a singles player and that of his team-mates could hardly be more extreme in terms of world rankings, with Leon Smith, the team captain, feeling his best option was to use world number 300 Dan Evans as his second singles player.

All the moreso when compared with the other semi-final where neither Belgium nor Argentina had a top 10 player to call upon, yet the match was ultimately on a knife edge, decided by a meeting of the world’s current 64th and 65th ranked players.

In his play, which he has rightly claimed is elevated beyond even his normal stunning standards when on international duty and increasingly in his demeanour, Murray is every inch the superstar within the British team.

The contrast in the post-match celebrations after Saturday’s epic doubles match between the two brothers who had ultimately combined so effectively, summed that up.

Albeit still slightly self-consciously Andy now knows he has licence from those watching to behave as he will, roaring his pleasure to the heavens and punching the air ostentatiously. Jamie also took an individual bow but cut a much more modest figure, raising his hand to acknowledge the still rapturous applause before returning to a deserved hug from their captain and fellow Scot Leon Smith.

The nature of the Barmy Army support, focused as it inevitably is, only reinforces the younger Murray’s dominant position.

Across the weekend their chant of “Andy we will win,” was set to the same rhythm as “Ali boom-ba-yay” with which African fans backed their man to win one of sport’s most celebrated matches. As a boxing fan Andy Murray will know all about “the Rumble in the Jungle.”

Even the Anglo-centric tennis authorities seem to have had to or chosen to defer to the man who had the courage to say a year ago that he no longer wanted to be British.

Like the rest of us Murray has accepted the referendum outcome, but regardless of whose decision the choice of music was, it is impossible to imagine a British Davis Cup audience in any other era swaying along to an extended version of “The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond” ahead of the decisive game, while the final set began and ended with bursts of Deacon Blue and The Proclaimers repeatedly had their say too.

The same could be said of the choice of attire as, even when the rest of the British team turned out clad in red on the final day, Murray stuck with his navy blue shirt and white shorts.

In the febrile atmosphere consequently generated there had to be room, in sporting terms, for some sympathy for poor Bernie Tomic who, like Thanasis Kokkinakis two days earlier, was up against forces with which he could not cope.

One of the 20 best players on the planet he played some magnificent tennis but ultimately there seemed a sense of bewilderment as he stared in disbelief when winning shot after winning shot came back to him due to Murray’s astonishing capacity to retrieve the ball the day after that emotionally and physically draining doubles; shoulders slumped after he had been forced to make one shot more than he expected and failed to pull it off; and towards the end stood helplessly distant watching un-makeable drop shots fall lifelessly onto his side of the net.

Yet the cult of Andy could have its dangers if it was not expertly handled.

The demands of singles play is one element but an additional reason that the world’s top players no longer play doubles is that it can be very hard for the very best to form partnerships because doubles in tennis can only be played at its most effective when there is mutual respect between those on the same side of the net.

In the modern age the last great singles player we all remember regularly excelling on the doubles court was John McEnroe and special factors affected his partnerships.

Originally, from before he was famous so to speak, he played with Peter Fleming, an older and physically more imposing partner who hailed from no-nonsense New Jersey and was himself a top 10 singles player for a while.

Thereafter there was an Indian summer when he and Michael Stich, a fellow Wimbledon singles champion, won the Wimbledon doubles title while he also performed well on Davis Cup duty with one Peter Sampras and, tellingly, made a late comeback with brother Patrick, all playing to the view that a certain standard or particular type of relationship is required to partner a top singles player.

All of that has to be factored into Smith’s considerations because the aforementioned gap in the British team’s singles rankings also means the doubles is likely to be the pivotal match in the latter stages of the Davis Cup, yet however friendly Murray is with the other players and whatever reassurances he offers, it would difficult, if not impossible, for most others to play unhindered by the awareness that they will be relentlessly targeted by their opponents, in turn bringing an exaggerated awareness of their capacity to let the main man down.

That could potentially be debilitating within a team dynamic but, in seeking to maximise his star player’s usefulness, captain Smith is fortunate to have a ready solution to the potential problem, thanks to the other member of his team that he has known since boyhood, a player who, if not unaffected by such concerns, has been playing tennis with and against his little brother so long that he knows there will be no questioning of his commitment.

There is, too, that element that as the older sibling Jamie is rather less likely than others to have concerns about challenging the star man’s authority which is vital, because no-one is right all the time.

Any notion that their advantage is some sort of telepathic understanding between brothers can be disregarded as was evident in the early stages against Leyton Hewitt and Sam Groth on Saturday when, more than once, they found themselves covering the same side of the court with the other completely undefended.

However another element of the relationship is that Jamie can hold his nerve in the knowledge that, for all his relative inexperience on a doubles court, Andy will get better and better as the match wears on.

When, then, Andy declared after the match that “everyone played their part,” and Smith that “the nice thing is it’s been a big team effort,” these were no mere platitudes and nor did they relate only to the necessary support being in place for the team’s No.1 to perform to his best.

In terms of what happened on court Great Britain would not be in a Davis Cup final without Jamie Murray and it is to the benefit of the whole team that they all know and recognise it.