With the morning nearly done, with the crowd trickling in and the SA batsmen trying not to trickle out on the third day of the final Test against England, a portly gentleman of an indefinite age stretched out on a bench on the wooden stands near the scoreboard for a Sunday snooze.

It was suggested he may have either overimbibed the night before or, more impressively and rather frighteningly, a little earlier that morning. He slept hard in the morning sun, one leg dangling, the other anchoring him to the bench...

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