Flash in the pan - 10 One season wonders in the IPL

2. Swapnil Asnodkar:

The diminutive hard-hitter from Goa raised quite a few eyebrows when he impressed the Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne in 2008. His daring stroke-play and aggressive approach to the game turned out to be the key for Royal’s triumphant run in the inaugural season of the IPL.

Nicknamed ‘Goa Cannon’ by Warne himself, Asnodkar was hailed as one of the future stars who, if handled well, could develop into a destructive right-hand batsman. Blossoming under the Australian legend, the 24-year-old accumulated 311 runs in only nine matches at the end of the season.

The graph, however, has been downhill since then. In the next three years, Asnodkar featured in 11 more games scoring barely more than a 100 runs. His average plummeted to 21.15 and he never got a match after the one against Kings XI Punjab in 2011. Eight years later, he has entirely disappeared from the cricketing arena leaving no trace behind even in the reserve benches.