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Monty Panesar led England’s attack with four wickets as South Africa were made to follow-on at Lord’s here today.
At stumps on the third day of the first Test, the Proteas were 13 without loss in their second innings.
That left them still 333 runs behind England’s imposing 8(dec)-593.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith was eight not out, with Neil McKenzie unbeaten on one.
Left-arm spinner Panesar took 4-74 in 26 overs and then, after England captain Michael Vaughan had enforced the follow-on in fading light, unusually took the new ball alongside occasional off-spinner Kevin Pietersen.
South Africa’s Ashwell Prince scored a hundred in his maiden Test innings against England but no-one could stay with the left-hander long enough to prevent the Proteas being bowled out for 247, a first innings deficit of 346.
At tea, South Africa were 4-156 with Prince, who had come to the crease at 3-47, unbeaten on 52 and AB de Villiers 38 not out.
De Villiers had added just four more runs to his score when his drive off Panesar was brilliantly caught goalkeeper-fashion at mid-on by an airborne James Anderson.
The experienced Mark Boucher then fell cheaply when, trying to leave the ball, he was bowled off the bottom of the bat by fast bowler Stuart Broad.
The tail didn’t look like it would linger long with Morne Morkel, bowled through a big gap between bat and pad, and Paul Harris, with the aid of another fine catch by Anderson, both falling to Panesar.
Broad tested Prince with a yorker which the batsman kept out and then struck him a couple of painful blows with shorter but well-directed deliveries.
However, Prince cut Broad over backward point for four to go to 99 off the last ball of an over.
A single saw Prince to the coveted landmark, the elated No.5 punching the air as he celebrated his eighth century in his 42nd Test. He’d batted for nearly five hours, facing 173 balls with a six and 13 fours.
His gutsy effort came to an end when, carving outside off-stump, he was caught behind for 101 off Ryan Sidebottom.
Earlier, Vaughan was rewarded for keeping Panesar going after lunch, having given him a couple of token overs before the break, when with his first ball after the resumption, he bowled McKenzie round his legs.
South Africa saw three of their key top order batsmen all dismissed in single figures after starting Saturday on seven without loss.
Five years ago at Lord’s, Smith made 259 – the highest score by an overseas batsman in a Test at the ‘home of cricket’.
But it was a different story today when he was out for eight after an Anderson ball took the shoulder of the bat and lobbed gently to Ian Bell at gully.
Hashim Amla was caught behind off Broad for six before Jacques Kallis, on seven, nicked Sidebottom low to diving first slip Andrew Strauss.
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