McKenzie, suffering with a groin strain towards the end of his 444-ball 138 and batting with his South Africa captain Graeme Smith as a runner, was unable to move his feet towards an attempted cut shot and edged a ball from England seamer James Anderson behind.

Ryan Sidebottom produced a superb in-swinging delivery to clean bowl Jacques Kallis but Hashim Amla (82no) was joined in the middle by first-innings centurion Ashwell Prince, with the Proteas 16 runs in profit on 362 for three.