Profile "Doug Bollinger"

Doug Bollinger

Australia

Full name Douglas Erwin Bollinger

Born July 24, 1981, Baulkham Hills, Sydney, New South Wales

Current age 29 years

Major teams Australia, Australia A, Chennai Super Kings, New South Wales, Worcestershire

Nickname Eagle

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium

Height 1.92 m

Douglas Erwin Bollinger

Statistics before July 03-2011

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	12	14	7	54	21	7.71	33.96	0	0	7	0	2	0
ODIs	32	6	2	40	30	10.00	100.00	0	0	4	0	7	0
First-class	69	77	34	326	31*	7.58		0	0			23	0
List A	88	24	11	87	30	6.69	76.31	0	0			16	0
Twenty20	48	4	3	23	16*	23.00	100.00	0	0	2	1	13	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	12	23	2401	1296	50	5/28	8/141	25.92	3.23	48.0	1	2	0
ODIs	32	32	1594	1208	50	5/35	5/35	24.16	4.54	31.8	2	2	0
First-class	69		12377	6752	240	6/47		28.13	3.27	51.5	9	12	2
List A	88		4346	3404	125	5/35	5/35	27.23	4.69	34.7	4	2	0
Twenty20	48	47	1016	1249	54	4/13	4/13	23.12	7.37	18.8	1	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v South Africa at Sydney, Jan 3-7, 2009
Last Test	Australia v England at Adelaide, Dec 3-7, 2010
ODI debut	Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Apr 24, 2009
Last ODI	Australia v England at Perth, Feb 6, 2011
First-class debut	2002/03
Last First-class	New South Wales v Queensland at Sydney, Dec 18-21, 2010
List A debut	2002/03
Last List A	Australia v England at Perth, Feb 6, 2011
Twenty20 debut	New South Wales v Queensland at Sydney, Jan 8, 200
Last Twenty20	Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chennai, May 28, 2011

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1/28	Chennai	v Bangalore	Chennai	28 May 2011
1/20	Chennai	v Bangalore	Mumbai	24 May 2011
0/34	Chennai	v Bangalore	Bangalore	22 May 2011
1/38	Chennai	v Kochi	Chennai	18 May 2011
1/38	Chennai	v Delhi	Chennai	12 May 2011
3/22	Chennai	v Rajasthan	Jaipur	9 May 2011
0/6	Chennai	v Kolkata	Kolkata	7 May 2011
0/28	Chennai	v Rajasthan	Chennai	4 May 2011
2/26	Chennai	v Deccan	Chennai	1 May 2011
3/21	Chennai	v Pune	Mumbai	27 Apr 2011

Profile

Doug Bollinger is a left-arm fast bowler loaded with character more suited to cold beer than high-quality champagne. Early in his maiden Test spell on his SCG home ground, having promised to give 150,000%, he waved animatedly at Ricky Ponting to demand a short-leg. The crowd cheered every grimace throughout a welcome that included two wickets - and has not stopped yelling. He left that match with an enhanced reputation and the nickname "Doug the rug" after receiving some help in manufacturing golden locks from a previously barren crown.

Since the international bow in 2009, Bollinger has become an important member on and off the field for Australia. Opposition batsmen don't like his angle or swing and his team-mates love his earthy character. He makes them laugh, often on purpose, but the funniest moment of his short time with the squad came from a mistake. Having taken a wicket in New Zealand, he grabbed his shirt, wanting to kiss the national coat of arms, but slobbered on the beer logo instead.

It took Bollinger until his mid-20s to develop into one of the country's best bowlers after being happy running around in Sydney park cricket. A raw action took time to develop, but he has operated smoothly over the past year. Chris Gayle did not know who Bollinger was before the 2009-10 Test series, but he quickly learned, falling to him twice in the series.

A maiden five-wicket haul came against West Indies in Perth and he followed up on the tour of New Zealand with an impressive 5 for 28 in Wellington. The performances showed not only that he was an able member of the squad, but that he could work in partnership with Mitchell Johnson, another left-arm fast man. In 2009 he also earned his first three one-day internationals and struck oil in Abu Dhabi with 5 for 35 in his second match. He quickly became a fixture in that side too.

The 2007-08 season was one of real change for Bollinger, who picked up his initial Cricket Australia contract, his first position in an Australia touring party and a wife. Just as he was preparing to depart on honeymoon, Bollinger received word that he was a late addition to the Test squad to tour the West Indies. He was unlucky not to be in the original group after topping the Pura Cup wicket tally with 45 at 15.44, an especially good return considering he missed the last three games of New South Wales' successful campaign with a broken foot. He had been instrumental in getting the Blues to the decider, grabbing 12 wickets in an innings victory over Tasmania and picking up ten victims in a win against Western Australia.

The previous summer had provided Bollinger's breakthrough in the Pura Cup when he became the Blues' second-leading wicket-taker with 37 victims at 28.37. That season finished with 5 for 73 in the first innings of the final against Tasmania and his success helped earn a contract at Worcestershire for 2007. He spent the 2006 winter at the Academy, by which stage he had already become the fourth man in Australia's one-day domestic history to claim a hat-trick.