Stoke the fire

Well what a days' cricket. What a player Ben Stokes is and what a total posted by England.

I love Cape Town and I love cricket. It's in my top three cities I have visited along with San Francisco and Sydney and though when we were there we didn't watch the Test match (we did in Pretoria and Durban) I know how crazy this place is on cricket so to witness Ben Stokes smash almost 200 off 100 balls this morning would have been incredible.

All kinds of records fell today

Highest score at number 6 in Tests: 258 Stokes today

Fastest ever 300 partnership: 46.4 overs Stokes/Bairstow today

Most runs in a pre-lunch session by a team:
196-0 England today

Most runs in pre lunch session by individual: 130 Stokes today

Fastest Test double century by an England batsman

Highest score by an England batsman in Cape Town

Most sixes by an England batsman (11)

Stokes and Bairstow set the highest Test partnership for the sixth wicket

Incredible