5 players who had a scintillating start to their IPL careers

#2 Doug Bollinger vs Rajasthan Royals

Bollinger was a fiery pacer in his heydays

April 3, 2010

Doug Bollinger made his IPL debut for the Chennai Super Kings against the Rajasthan Royals in Chennai. Murali Vijay’s astonishing innings of 127(56) took the CSK’s total to a record 246-5.

Bollinger, playing his first IPL match, took two wickets for 15 runs in his four overs. He claimed the all-important wicket of the in-form Shane Watson in the sixteenth over and swung the match in Chennai’s favour.

Bollinger also took the wicket of Abhishek Jhunjhunwala in the penultimate over to restrict the Royals well within the target. Bollinger was also brilliant in the field, as he took a spectacular catch near the boundary to remove the dangerous Yusuf Pathan. That catch is till date one of the tournament’s best. Rajasthan came close to the target of 247, but eventually lost by 23 runs.