0911: Splendid day, splendid Test. Anyone fancy some more? Cape Town, 3rd Jan, 0830 GMT kick-off. It's in the diary.

From Anthony Walton in South Wales, TMS inbox: "Eerie parallels to the Ashes series going in here. Saved a game they should lost and followed it up with a tub thumping win. Rain affected draw next?"

0903: Hello - it's Andrew Strauss! "It's not far off the best performance I've seen from an England side, certainly away from home. I'm delighted we've stuck to our plans - we've had some outstanding performances here that have laid the basis for the victory. Our seamers did a really good job in their first innings. We're going to have to keep our feet on the ground for Cape Town, but 1-0 up in the series with two matches to go is a good place to be."

0900: Man-of-the-match award goes to Graeme Swann. "I'm not complaining," he says. "I didn't expect to do as much bowling as I have in South Africa."

0857: Here's some Graeme Smith: "England outplayed us in the middle section of the match. We didn't create enough pressure and allowed them to get ahead in the game. We were off the boil here, and that's not good enough. England were far more precise in executing their plans. We've got to bounce back in Cape Town."

0852: We'll have the presentations in a moment - deafening roars from the England fans, and Andrew Strauss leads his men back onto the field. It's been a huge vindication of the skipper's selections and tactics - tons for the under-pressure Cook and Bell, 20 wickets from his four-man attack. Think there'll be an early New Year's Eve party for the one of the teams tonight...

From Phil in Derby, TMS inbox: "Have England ever won before 11am before? What's the appropriate time to crack the beers out. Tough etiquette call, that one."

Try 9am for size, Phillipe...

0844: Joy unconfined among the England players and supporters - a spectacular thrashing of the most successful team in the world over the last two years, on their home patch. Swann finishes with 5-54, his fourth five-for of the year, Stuart Broad with 4-43 - stumps are grabbed, hair ruffled, backs slapped.

0841: WICKET Steyn lbw Swann 3, SA 133 all out - ENGLAND WIN BY AN INNINGS AND 98 RUNS
"Jingle bells, jingle bells," sing the Barmy Army, "jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to see England win away..." Full, fast, plumb! It's all over!

From Jim Green, Australia, TMS inbox: "Plumberoo-a-ding-dong indeed! I have a South African neighbour across the road who upon arrival in Oz immediately declared himself Australian. How i wish he could support South Africa again just for a day."

0836: WICKET Harris c Broad b Anderson 36, SA 129-9
Yup, Anderson it is, and Harris suddenly doesn't fancy this - backing away from two nasty snakers outside off, and - gone! Chips feebly at a fast full one, Broady bags the pouch at mid-on. We're nearly there...

0834: SA 129-8
Harris is enjoying his role as South Africa's premier swordsman here - sashay down the track, heavy-armed clout down the ground for a meaty four. Grimace from Swann, and I think we'll have a change at the other end - Jimmy A?

0830: SA 124-8
Broad will have another go here - short, dropped at his feet by Steyn. Triumphant tootles from Barmy Army trumpeter Billy Cooper.

0826: SA 124-8
Swann, the twirling dervish - aaaghh, edged past the sprawling Strauss at slip. Clip from Harris - dropped! Wonderful effort from Trott at short midwicket, flinging himself to his left and getting a finger underneath a skimmer, but he can't make it stick. Harris moves to 31 to become his side's top scorer in the innings - anyone have cash on that?

0823: SA 120-8
Big yawn from Aleem Dar. Hard man to please, the umpire. Broad canters in, men in at first, second and fourth slip plus Cook at forward short leg. Broad goes short repeatedly, and if he wasn't on four you'd think about giving him a blow for Onions after this one.

0820: SA 119-8
Skipper Strauss crouches low at slip, his hairy forearms resting on his knees - pushed through by Swann, Harris playing no stroke, the ball maybe hitting him just outside off. Big drive down the ground, past the chugging Onions at mid-off - they'll take a token three.

0815: SA 114-8
Who's going to win the race to five here? Lord alive, how has that missed the timbers? Vicious in-jagger from Broad - Steyn shoulders arms, and the death-rattle was unheard by the width of a midge's eyelash.

From Nigel Evans, TMS inbox: "Going ape in a village in Tonga. My neighbours think I'm nuts - rugby's their game."

0809: SA 109-8
Referral worked a treat there, to be fair. Swann now, seeking a fifth of his own - big turn in to Steyn, trapped on the bag peg - appeal turned down by Aleem Dar, and will they refer this one? They don't - why not? - and replays show Steyn was, ah, plumberoo-a-ding-dong. If Swanny doesn't get his five-for now...

0804: WICKET Boucher c Prior b Broad 29, SA 108-8
Broad goes short again - Boucher leaps, there's a noise, Prior leaps and snags - is that out? Umpire Saheba shakes his sorry head, but England are convinced - we'll have a referral. Come on, clear glove in that - out!

0758: SA 106-7
Dabs, blocks, jabs from the unhappy Boucher. Leg slip has come out, and Swann's now wishing it hadn't - inside edge that flies right through that slot.

From Jonathan Davies, TMS inbox: "In bed in a lovely hotel in West Wales, wife who was snoring got a huge fright when Rock Star took that one!"

0758: SA 103-7
Harris leading a charmed life out there - short one fended off just shy of slip, another lifter fenced between the two gullies. Howls of cartoon anguish from the close-in fielders. Sun out now in Durban, and we shouldn't have any worries on that score.

0754: SA 96-7
Swanny threatening with every delivery now. There's turn in to Boucher's pad, and thick edge on one - rapid ricochet towards Cook at forward short leg, but too fast for the Essex man to lay anything but a big boot on it. Swann clutches his head in melodramatic fashion.

0752: SA 95-7
Broad tenderising Harris here like a prime slab of South African steak - rapid lifters into the rib-cage, careering up into the arm-pit. Doesn't like it up him, the big man.

0748: SA 94-7
Swann officially on fire. Loop, grip, turn - ooh-la, how has that missed Harris's off stump? The big man then shuffles back and is trapped on the back peg - half-hearted appeal, and replays show they could have gone up like banshees. Hitting top of leg. England clambering all over this one.

From Dr Phil, Perth, TMS inbox: "Would you believe it, what luck! Had a power cut at work, unable to do my dentistry, have come home early, just in time to follow the start of a hopefully successful day in Durban."

0742: SA 91-7
The Curse Of Swann's First Over strikes again. 4-27 off 11 for Rock-Star, as Michael Vaughan calls him. Broad now, seeking to stay level with his own fourth scalp - short, crashed away with why-not desperation by new-man Harris. Short and into the rib-cage - looks like Harris is wearing a chest guard under his shirt. At least he's getting his money's worth.

0737: WICKET Morkel lbw Swann 15, SA 86-7
Swann now, shades down - turn, rip, oh, just past the outside edge. Same ball, more ripped - argh! Missed at slip by Skipper Strauss. Straighter faster flatter - plumb! Plumberoo-a-ding-dong!

0732: SA 76-6
Now then - Mark Boucher in the slots, Stuart Broad to race in from the Umgeni End. There are supporters in, but not a South African among them. Short and dabbed away for a single by Poucher, short again to Morne Morkel and hooked into the vacant deep square leg acres for the first four of the day. Nothing there to excite, but there wasn't yesterday until the Hour Of Madness...

0720: A few numbers for you: four wickets needed, deficit of 156, 90 overs in the day. You'd have taken it as a Christmas present, wouldn't you?

0715: Let's not mess about - it's dry at Kingsmead, and the forecast is set fair. Cloudy but dry. 45 years since England beat South Africa by an innings, you know...