5 careers which never took off under Ricky Ponting’s captaincy

#4 Doug Bollinger

Despite bringing the variety of left-arm pace, Doug Bollinger could not succeed at the highest level

Being a left-arm fast bowler meant Doug Bollinger brought variety, but he soon found himself out of the reckoning with the more fiery Mitchell Johnson finding greater favour. A career which began in 2009 across formats ended in 2011, though his final appearance came in a T20 international in 2014. The strongly built Bollinger always threatened with his pace and over-the-wicket angle – particularly to right-handers – but could not last more than 12 Tests and 39 ODIs.

In his second Test series, he got his only five-for, against West Indies at Perth in 2009, and followed that up with 12 wickets against Pakistan. When he went to New Zealand in the new year, he left an imprint there with 12 further scalps; and on the dry pitches of India late in 2010, his swing and movement impressed the selectors enough to give him a go in the Ashes that followed. But in the second Test at Adelaide, just one wicket in a massive loss meant they never turned to him again, though he featured in ODIs until late 2011.