Ben Stokes bludgeoned a career-best 204 not out in a devastating display of attacking batting to power England to 5-513 at lunch on day two of the second Test against South Africa on Sunday.
With Stokes rampant, England plundered 196 runs in the first session on day two to take complete control against the top-ranked South Africans.
Stokes, on 74 overnight, needed just 12 balls on Sunday morning to get to his century and continued to flay the South Africa bowling attack all over Newlands. Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, who was 95 not out at lunch, shared a destructive and unbroken 290-run partnership, a record sixth-wicket stand for England.
That put England, already 1-0 ahead in the series, in complete command at one of South Africa's favourite grounds. England last won a test at Newlands in 1957.
