DURHAM smashed their one-day batting records, courtesy of a magnificent 164 by Ben Stokes, as they swept to an 83-run win in today’s Royal London Cup semi-final at home to Nottinghamshire.

The total of 353 for eight was 21 more than Durham had scored before in a one-day match and Stokes broke his own record for the highest individual score, the 150 not out he made in a 40-over league match at Edgbaston in 2011.

Nottinghamshire, who won the Yorkshire Bank 40 final at Lord’s last season, quickly slipped to 21 for two in reply and were all out for 270, despite another sparkling century from one-day captain James Taylor.

He followed his unbeaten 146 in the quarter-final win against Derbyshire by making 114 before he was last out in the 47th over.

But was involved in two calamitous run outs straight after he and Chris Read had taken 20 off the 39th over, bowled by Chris Rushworth.

The 30-over scores were identical on 158 for three and in the next over Samit Patel reached 50 with a six off Gareth Breese. The ball was caught on the mid-wicket boundary by Calum MacLeod, but his foot had touched the rope.

The stand with Taylor was worth 97, but Patel sat back to cut the next ball and edged to Phil Mustard. That proved crucial as the pressure to match Durham’s late onslaught saw Riki Wessels drive Breese to long-on.

Then James Franklin cracked a catch to extra cover before Read and Ajmal Shahzad were run out.

After losing three of their first four games in the competition, Durham will now face Warwickshire on September 20 hoping for a repeat of their one previous appearance in a Lord’s final, when they beat Hampshire in the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy.

En route to that final they scored their previous best List A total, 332 for four, at home to Worcestershire.

Stokes’s 113-ball blitz included six sixes. Dropped on 12 by Read, standing up to the medium pace of Steven Mullaney, his first 50 came off 47 balls, the second off 37 and the third off 21.

He dominated a fourth-wicket stand of 135 with Phil Mustard, although it was the wicketkeeper who launched the onslaught which started when they took the five-over batting powerplay after 35 overs.

Mustard hadn’t hit a boundary for 18 overs but suddenly cracked Jake Ball for four, six, four and Durham all but doubled their score in the last 15 overs, which produced 174 runs Mustard was run out for 89 in the 40th, but by that stage Nottinghamshire didn’t know where to bowl at Stokes.