Rahul Dravid had placed a leg slip specifically for the legglance, and his plan should have worked perfectly but Dinesh Karthik spilled the chance after juggling with the ball.
Strauss, who had his problems against Paul Harris when the slow left-armer persisted from over the wicket into the rough, continued to try the legglance and was caught off bat and pad by Smith, who eventually positioned himself behind square on the leg-side.
It was a strange innings from Pietersen, in which he hit three boundaries, the first a neat leg-glance from his first ball, the other two driven nicely on the off-side.