Former KKR Batter Endured a Rollercoaster Finals Day in T20 Blast 2025, Hitting a Semifinal Century Before Falling Cheaply in the Final

The Finals Day of the 2025 Vitality Blast witnessed a fully phased Chris Lynn. In the semifinal of the tournament, Lynn scored a 49-ball century for Hampshire against Northamptonshire at Edgbaston.

To complete the hundred, the Australian batter hammered five consecutive sixes against Lloyd Pope. When he was batting on 78, the top-order batter started a string of over boundaries in the 15th over to race away to a 49-ball century. He single-handedly shifted the momentum of the match while they were chasing a target of 155 in 18 overs, over the limit, and the target was reduced through the DLS method. Lynn remained unbeaten for 108 off 51 and pushed Hampshire for the summit clash.

In the final match, the Aussie opener's bat remained silent, scoring only 12 runs against 7 balls; Craig Overton dismissed him in the third over. Though he was able to make 194 runs in 20 overs, their opponent, Somerset, chased them down in 19 overs without confronting any surprising challenge. The defeat in the final did not fade away the marks he left in the semifinals by scoring the hundred.

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The scorecard is the proof of Lynn's dominating batting 

This was his fourth T20 Blast century, and he became the first batter to score a hundred on Finals Day in 22 years. Hampshire's semifinal batting scorecard is the proof that he was dominating Lynn in the match. After Lynn, James Vince, skipper of Hampshire, was the second-highest scorer of the game with only 12 runs. Four other batters who stepped into the crease did not get a double-digit score. 

The Brisbane-born participated in 7 Indian Premier League seasons, 5 with the Kolkata Knight Riders. IPL saw his best during the 2018 season, when he scored 491 runs in 16 matches for the Purple and Gold brigade.