Ben Stokes' 258 - as it happened

60.2 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, on the pads, flicked firmly through the vacant midwicket. Sweet timing and good patience

62.5 Piedt to Stokes, FOUR, tossed up and walloped. A rank loopy full toss and Stokes dropped to one knee to smoke it through midwicket

64.6 Piedt to Stokes, SIX, spanked. Stokes treats that ball with the disdain that his detractors deserve. Butchered into the midwicket stands!

69.4 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, thumping drive, Perfect weight transfer, and that travelled... all along the ground with minimal followthrough. Timing

69.6 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, more bat behind the ball, another boundary. Timing and placement, through the covers this time

72.6 van Zyl to Stokes, FOUR, that's lovely, brings his bottom hand through the shot as he whips this from outside off wide of mid-on

80.1 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, what a way to greet the new ball! Full outside off and Stokes responds with a textbook-perfect on-drive

80.2 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, and now he flashes one over the slip cordon...all action. Some width outside off, Stokes threw his hands through a cut shot and it skimmed over the catchers to third man. Fifty for Stokes from 70 balls

80.5 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, another edge, another boundary! Just the two slips in place now, Stokes drives at a full delivery outside off and the edge races through where a wide(ish) third slip would have been and beats third man

82.1 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, he's not slowing down, he tried to do this last over, this time picks up a delivery that was a touch short outside off and pulls it wide of mid-on

84.1 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, another short ball, Stokes pulls it fine of long leg...was in the air for quite some time but well wide of the fielder

87.3 Morkel to Stokes, FOUR, no loitering from Stokes! A touch of width and despite the change of angle, no compunction about flogging it to the fence!

87.5 Morkel to Stokes, FOUR, width again and Stokes flings his hands through the line, pierces the cover field and brings up the hundred stand. He's in a busy mood this morning...

88.2 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, too wide, too full, too tempting for Stokes not to cash in. Another confident stride onto the front foot, and battered through the covers. Three fine shots

88.3 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, he's done it again! This was even wider, still nice and full for the drive. And Stokes just reached it and timed it. Dreadful start from South Africa, and Stokes is motoring

88.6 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, short, wide, uppercut through third man! What on earth is going orf out there?! Stokes is one blow from a hundred and we've had just 12 balls this morning ...

90.4 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, dabbed through backward point but just look at the timing on that! Nothing more than a steer but Bavuma at third man merely ends up in a tangle of boundary sponges

90.5 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, short, spanked through backward square leg. Dreadful bowling but what outstanding asset-stripping from Stokes

91.4 Morkel to Stokes, FOUR, ... but this time he offers just a modicum of width from a fuller length, and Stokes has nine-ironed him to the fence at long-off!

92.3 Rabada to Stokes, FOUR, short ... no, no, no, no, no, you can't bowl there to a man in this sort of a mood. Battered through wide mid-on

94.6 Rabada to Stokes, FOUR, whoomph! Just a modicum too short, and Stokes leans back and flogs this one violently through midwicket. Fetch that!

98.2 Piedt to Stokes, FOUR, reverse swept, and superbly so! Turned full circle at the crease to deposit the ball through third man. Shot

98.3 Piedt to Stokes, SIX, walloped, high and tantalising, over long off ... there's a man on the rope, backpedalling, will he get there ..? Will he heck! All the way, with the wind helping it over the line

100.2 Piedt to Stokes, SIX, he just keeps going, this a wonderful lofted straight drive and what a way to reach 150 off 135 deliveries...takes a few steps down the pitch and drills him perfectly straight

102.2 Piedt to Stokes, SIX, brute force! Took a stride down the pitch on a line outside leg stump and plundered through the line...wasn't even that close to the ball. Over wide long off, with a little wind assist

104.4 Piedt to Stokes, FOUR, down the pitch, heaved into the leg side and splits the gap between deep midwicket and deep square...neither moved very quickly. Stokes nowhere near the pitch again. It doesn't matter

104.5 Piedt to Stokes, SIX, this is into the crowd! Extraordinary batting from Stokes. Down on one knee and slog-sweeps into the stands at deep midwicket...100 runs in the session for him

104.6 Piedt to Stokes, SIX, and now it's straight down the ground! Brilliant stuff, skips towards the bowler and just effortlessly deposits Piedt into the stand behind him

105.6 Rabada to Stokes, SIX, into the stands again! Running out of words to describe this innings, picks up a short delivery from outside off and pulls it over deep square leg

107.1 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, plundered by Stokes! It's a full ball outside off which he dismisses from his presence with a crunching drive over mid-off

107.3 Morris to Stokes, FOUR, he didn't really get hold of this but that hardly matters, a short delivery is butchered from outside off over mid-on

108.6 Morkel to Stokes, FOUR, there it is! What a double hundred. The second fastest in Test cricket. He hammers a short delivery wide of mid-on, a trademark of the innings, and he jumps for joy for the second this morning. We have seen something incredible today

114.2 Morkel to Stokes, SIX, utterly pumped into the stands at long-on! A decent full length, but Stokes extended his levers and powered through the line of the ball!

114.3 Morkel to Stokes, FOUR, on the hip, and sweetly placed in the gap at square leg - two fielders converge but the timing is too true. That is, incredibly, the 300-run partnership!

116.6 Elgar to Stokes, FOUR, down on one knee, one bounce through the gap at midwicket. The runs just keep on pouring

120.2 van Zyl to Stokes, SIX, up, up, up, up, up and away! Tonked from outside off way over wide long-on, with the sweetest of followthroughs!

121.4 Rabada to Stokes, FOUR, steam-engined through midwicket! Not a desperately bad length, but Stokes has forearms like pistons and that choo-chooed into the distance

121.6 Rabada to Stokes, FOUR, outside off, climbing further from the bat, so Stokes leans back and wafts it through third man to bring up the 350 partnership!

125.1 Rabada to Stokes, SIX, that's 250...a short ball is pulled over deep square leg, that's now the highest score by a No. 6 in Test cricket

125.2 Rabada to Stokes, SIX, that's humongous! He has thundered this length delivery almost out of the ground over long on with a golf-style swing of the bat

125.3 Rabada to Stokes, OUT, chaos! Another catch is dropped but Stokes is run out as he's ball-watching! He mowed this miles into the air, de Villiers, of all people, shelled the chance coming in from mid-on but then had the presence of mind to throw down the non-striker's stumps