For years a local doctor from the mining town of Springs, on the East Rand, has been prescribing patients with brain damage a sleeping tablet called Stilnox. In 1999 Dr Wally Nel gave the sleeping tablet to the comatose Louis Viljoen. He awoke from a seven year long coma.
When we beat India on Saturday it was a great day for a team that was derided as chokers. And to make things worse, Morné van Wyk dropped three catches, including Virender Sehwag when he was on four. In fact people said he actually looked as if he was asleep. As it turns out, he was.