5 batsmen who you didn't know have picked one wicket in IPL

IPL is the mother of all entertainment. Every time one feels that the league has gone past its prime, the IPL comes up with something even more eye-catching and constantly compels the viewers to expect the unexpected.

We cover one such unexpected thing which must have gone pretty much unnoticed at the time of its occurrence. Let's have a look at five famous batsmen in the league who most of us don't know have picked a wicket in the Indian T20 extravaganza.

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#1 Ajinkya Rahane

The first thing one has in his head when thinking of Ajinkya Rahane is his present franchise Rajasthan Royals. Bought by the Royals in 2011, Rahane has been a consistent performer at the top order and was the management's automatic choice of skipper when Steve Smith was banned from the event this year.

However, the right-handed opener's first tryst with IPL came with his home franchise of Mumbai Indians for whom he played 10 matches in the first two IPL editions.

In their league match against Kings XI Punjab in 2009, Mumbai captain Sachin Tendulkar tossed the ball to Rahane as the dry Centurion track was assisting the spinners. With Harbhajan Singh and JP Duminy already having bowled out their quota of overs, Rahane's slower bowling was called for.

After a couple of poor deliveries, Rahane foxed Luke Pomersbach with a flighted one that pitched on leg stump. However, the ball went across the left-hander to hit the top of middle stump.

That was the only over that Ajinkya Rahane bowled in his entire IPL career till date. In fact, he is yet to bowl in any form of international cricket and could well be used to break a partnership.

#2 Aaron Finch

Finch has been associated with as many as 7 IPL teams

Aaron Finch has been quite a freelancer as far as IPL is concerned for he has been associated with seven franchises till date. In the 2013 edition of IPL, he was made the captain of the Pune Warriors India as the team tried doing everything to reverse their misfortunes.

In a match against Mumbai Indians played at the Wankhede, captain Finch decided to open the bowling as his left arm off spinners would have spun away from Mumbai's opening duo of Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar.

After a decent first over, Finch came back in the ninth over of the innings to account for a well settled Tendulkar for 44. The 'Little Master' walked down the track to a flighted delivery but confused about the pitch of the ball, he ended up skying it.

With more of elevation and less distance on it, Mitchell Marsh caught the ball just inches inside the long on boundary. In the 7.1 overs in his IPL career, Tendulkar's wicket remains Finch's only achievement. Ain't that good though?

#3 Lendl Simmons

Lendl Simmons has an IPL century to his name

Windies top order batsman Lendl Simmons has been associated with Mumbai Indians in the past. He featured in 29 games for the franchise and scored 1079 runs at an average of 39.96.

In a 2014 match against KKR at Cuttack, Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma tried sneaking in a couple of overs from Simmons in order to complete the quota of the fifth bowler. However, the move backfired as Robin Uthappa smashed the medium pacer for a couple of sixes.

Although Simmons avenged the beating by clean bowling Uthappa, KKR went on to win the match. The delivery to which Robin got out was nothing more than ordinary and it was just a case of 'you miss, I hit' as the KKR opener missed a straight one.

#4 Adam Gilchrist

Gilchrist's celebration is one of IPL's most memorable moments

One of the most feared batsmen of his generation and an equal amiable personality off the field, Adam Gilchrist played for Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab.

After being a regular feature in the first six editions and also leading the Chargers to the title in 2009, Gilchrist finally announced that the 2013 edition would be his last.

Playing at Dharamsala in his last IPL match, Punjab were cruising to victory as Mumbai had to score an improbable 50 runs off the last over.

Just to enjoy his last moments on the cricket field, Gilchrist handed over the keeper's gloves to Praveen Kumar and came on to bowl for the first and last time in such a long career.

In one of IPL's most memorable moments, the Aussie veteran picked up the last Mumbai wicket, that of Harbhajan Singh, with his very first ball and went into a child-like celebration.

His envious bowling stats read Wickets:1, Avg.:0.0, SR:1.0, Econ.:0.00, Best:1/0.

#5 Manoj Tiwary

Tiwary came up with a slinging action in the recent years

In an inconsequential encounter between KKR and Mumbai in 2010, KKR skipper Sourav Ganguly seemed to be giving each of his bowlers a chance against a second string Mumbai team.

Manoj Tiwary got a chance to bowl his leg-breaks in the 18th over of the faltering Mumbai innings. On his fifth delivery, which was a short ball outside off, Rajagopal Satish did not middle his lofted shot as Murali Kartik at long on took a neat catch to award Tiwary his only IPL wicket.

Tiwary will be remembered by Kolkata fans for not his wicket but his winning boundary in the final of IPL 2012 which won KKR their maiden title.