5 most bizarre run outs in international cricket

#2 Alastair Cook vs India, December 2012 (Kolkata)

The 2012 Test series in India was a memorable one for Alastair Cook, both as player and as captain. Cook’s England stunned India in the four-match Test series and registered their first Test series win on Indian soil for 28 years.

Cook might’ve made tons and tons of runs in that series but he was run out in one of the most bizarre ways in the third Test. After keeping India to 316 in the first innings, England were in the box seat at 359/2. Cook had scored his third hundred of the series and was batting on 190.

In the 127th over of the match, Kevin Pietersen whipped one off his pads to square leg where Virat Kohli fielded the ball cleanly. Cook had backed up a little which prompted Kohli to have a shy at the stumps. As the throw came in, Cook tried to evade the throw and, in the process, moved away without reaching the crease. The ball hit the stumps and Cook was runout.

The then England captain looked distraught. He had missed out on a well-deserved double ton.