Stokes 258 off 198 balls
Second fastest Test double century
Bairstow 150* - maiden Test century
Highest Test sixth-wicket stand (399)
Amla 64*, De Villiers 25*
England lead 1-0 in four-match series
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I didn't see that coming - I thought they would go on a bit longer. I'm not sure that if you bowled South Africa out he would make them follow on because in the hot weather it is hard work for the bowlers."
And with that, Alastair Cook waves Bairstow and new batsman Moeen Ali in. Interesting.
Bairstow is on strike now - and he hoists Rabada for six next ball. A single takes him to his 150. Well batted.
Image source, ReutersGeoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"If you're a real lover of cricket, even if you're a South African, you have to put your hand up and say 'I am glad I was there.'"
Stokes run out 258 (Eng 623-6)
There's no third time lucky. Stokes swipes, the balls comes down with snow on it, but AB de Villiers drops a steepler at mid-on... Hang on, Stokes was ambling down the pitch - De Villiers picks the ball up, spots him out of his crease and throws down the stumps. A rather ugly end to a remarkable innings.
And another. Stokes goes big again.
Eng 616-5
Image source, Getty Images"Don't bowl there to me, young man." Rabada bangs it in once more, and Stokes pulls it disdainfully over mid-wicket for six. That's his 250 - the quickest in Test history.
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Four off the final four balls of the over and it's time for drinks. Actually, food - the sub fielders are trotting on to the field with plates of fruit, I think.
Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
"I'm afraid Morne Morkel is standing in front of the largest and most vocal contingent of the Barmy Army and he is not going to hear the end of that."
Eng 604-5
It doesn't rain but it pours... Even when a chance comes, South Africa manage to drop it. Morne Morkel barely had to move at long-off but Jonny Bairstow survives. To make matters worse, the ball goes for four. Chris Morris, for what it's worth, is the unlucky bowler. Deary me.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"A new sixth-wicket partnership record in Tests, 368, the third time in three years that has been broken."
Carnage. Pure carnage. Bairstow makes room to squeeze a near yorker-length delivery from Rabada through cover. He then pulls one to fine leg for six with very quick hands, and takes England past 600 with another powerful stroke back past the bowler. Only Rabada's shin prevents another boundary. Metaphorically and physically painful now.
Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
Image source, Getty Images"Just the 331 balls for that 350 partnership, with 40 fours and eight sixes."
Graeme Smith
Ex-South Africa captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I think umpire Aleem Dar might be calling for a helmet soon. South Africa looking at the ball, I wouldn't be surprised if it has been knocked out of shape."
Bairstow joins in the fun. First he pulls Stiaan Van Zyl through mid-wicket, then hammers him back over his head - flat and oh so hard. And another! Not quite as straight this time but the result is the same. They're hitting the ball so hard the umpires have to check if it's gone out of shape. Ouch. Ouch. And ouch again.
Graeme Smith
Ex-South Africa captain on BBC Test Match Special
"When South Africa bat the top three are going to be so crucial to try and stave off this momentum England have. If they go two down quickly there would be flutters in that dressing room again."
Stokes rubs South African noses in it by muscling four through mid-wicket - followed by another to a vacant third man. Power and placement in equal measure.
Stokes 234
Image source, Getty ImagesYes, that pitched a good few inches outside leg stump. Desperation springs to mind.
Eng 566-5 (Stokes 234)
Oooh, what have we here? Kagiso Rabada has an appeal for lbw against Stokes turned down, but South Africa want another look. Surely that pitched outside leg....