IPL: 10 Players who impressed on their debut in cash-rich league

3. Kevon Cooper 11* and 4/26 vs KXIP, 2012

Trinidadian Kevin Cooper who didn't play an international match for the West Indies, impressed highly on his debut IPL match. The year was 2012, the match was at Rajasthan Royals' home - the Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

They posted 191 runs on the board. Kevin showed his batting capabilities by scoring 11* runs off just three balls. It was time for him to run with the ball in hand as well. Even RR's skipper back then Rahul Dravid spoke highly of him at the toss.

As soon as he came into the bowling attack he got rid of the dangerous-looking Paul Valthaty. In the next over, he got two Kings' players out, one was Shaun Marsh and the other one was Abhishek Nayar. He almost broke the back of KXIP's batting.

With his economical third over, he brought the pressure back on the opponent. Again Dravid called him to finish his four-over spell, in the penultimate over and he got Piyush Chawla out, by then the match was over for Kings XI Punjab.

He was the star of the Royals' bowling attack, his four-wicket haul going at just 6.50 runs per over was gold dust. The only regret he might have alongside not playing for his national side could be missing out on the Player of the Match award in that very game as it went to his teammate Ajinkya Rahane. He went on to play 24 more IPL matches after that.