MJK Smith was out four times in the 90s

And needless to say, he was run out - this time in Lahore. MJK was batting with Ken Barrington when he set off for a quick single after pushing the ball wide of mid-on.

MJK told BBC Sport Online: "It was a cock-up. It was totally self-inflicted. Ken actually sent me back but I don't blame him at all, it was just a misunderstanding.

"At the time we could have done with some more runs, so it wasn't very clever."

Again the agony was alleviated by an England win thanks to a crucial 66 not out from captain Ted Dexter on the final day.

Mushtaq joins the list

More than a decade passed before the next "run out for 99" statistic hit the Wisden archives, and this time the man to join the ignominious club was Mushtaq Mohammed - in the final match of a 0-0 drawn series in Pakistan.

He remembers the incident well.

"For almost two overs I was looking to push the single that would take me to my century," he told BBC Sport Online.

"I saw Geoff Arnold was at deep mid-off and he was one of the poorest England fielders.

"Norman Gifford was bowling and Intikhab Alam was batting at the other end. I stepped out and wanted to push it past the bowler down to where Geoff was.

"I set off for a run but perhaps Norman was anticipating it. He wasn't a very good fielder either but he hopped out and stopped the ball.

Mushtaq Mohammad, a run out victim in 1973

"I was half way down the track, Intikhab was coing down. He said: 'Come on - cross me' but I just panicked and ran back.

"Norman threw the ball at wicketkeeper Allan Knott. It wasn't a very good throw - the ball bounced in the rough created by the bowler's footmarks.

"I don't know how Knotty collected it - but he was one of the best wicketkeepers in the world - and in the end I was out by about a foot. I was really, really livid.

"It was areally horrible feeling and I couldn't even blame Intikhab."

Three 99s

The Karachi Test was remarkable since two other batsmen were out for 99 - Dennis Amiss and Majid Khan.

But, as Mushtaq admitted: "I was the bloody dumbest of them all - at least they got out properly."

Graham Gooch missed what would have been his first Test century by one run at the MCG in February 1980 when he was run out.

And the man who later opened the batting for England with Goochie, Mike Atherton, also fell victim in the same way in the Lord's defeat to Australia in 1993.

Of course, one South African batsman sitting on the balcony could sympathise with McKenzie on Monday.

Jacques Kallis suffered the same fate when he was last man out in Melbourne in December.