Stats: Opening batsmen getting run out after scoring fifty in IPL

Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Chris Lynn has been in a scintillating form the IPL 10. He has plundered runs at will and has been a revelation for the Knight Riders at the top order. Lynn recently scored a brisk 84 in the match against the Kings XI Punjab. He was looking set for a century but was dismissed towards the fag end of the run chase as a result of a run out.

His dismissal mode of run out provided the 49th instance in the IPL history when a batsman got run out after scoring a fifty. The first ever player to get runout after scoring a fifty was Matthew Hayden for the Chennai Superkings. Hayden had scored 81 while opening for CSK against the Mumbai Indians in the inaugural edition of the tournament.

Interestingly, when Chris Lynn was dismissed on 84 against the Kings, he became the 23rd opener in the history of the tournament to be run out after reaching the fifty run mark. The first striker batsman to have been runout as a result of a runout after scoring fifty was Sachin Tendulkar. The then Mumbai Indians skippers had scored 65 against the Kings XI Punjab.

Lynn’s knock was quite phenomenal considering the number of benchmarks he set in the IPL. His dismissal of runout after scoring fifty was the 6th instance when a batsman from Kolkata Knight Riders fell in such a fashion.

Also, it was the sixth instance when a batsman got out in the run out mode after scoring a fifty against the Kings XI Punjab. It was the third instance when this dubious thing happened at the venue of Mohali.

List of opening batsmen dismissed runout after scoring fifties in IPL: