He tweaked a hamstring (in the first Test) in Cape Town, and he was just feeling the effects.

Yorkshire had none of the color I'd known in Cape Town- the vivid pinks and purples of the freesias and arum lilies in the flower sellers' baskets. Yorkshire had none of the fragrant floral perfume, or the tang of salt in the air from the ocean.

We didn't have the advantage of legal brains in Cape Town.

Everybody had a feeling. It just wasn't there. ..We put it to pasture, righteously as it should be.

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

There's nothing that gives the impression at the moment that the claim was made from Cape Town.