Doug the Rug pulls the pin

LEFT-ARM paceman Doug Bollinger has called time on a successful cricketing career in which he represented Australia across all three formats and developed into one of the game’s great characters.

NSW quick Bollinger, 36, played 12 Tests, 39 one-day internationals and nine T20s in an international career spanning 2009-2014. He bagged 50 Test wickets at 25.92, 62 ODI wickets at 23.9 and nine T20 scalps at 27.66.