Anil Kumble
India
Player profile
Full name Anil Kumble
Born October 17, 1970, Bangalore, Karnataka
Current age 37 years 62 days
Major teams India, ACC Asian XI, Karnataka, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Surrey
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 121 154 30 2240 110* 18.06 5737 39.04 1 4 270 9 54 0
ODIs 271 136 47 938 26 10.53 1536 61.06 0 0 57 6 85 0
First-class 232 297 59 5288 154* 22.21 7 16 114 0
List A 380 203 73 1456 30* 11.20 0 0 122 0
Twenty20 2 1 0 8 8 8.00 7 114.28 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 121 217 37773 16739 584 10/74 14/149 28.66 2.65 64.6 29 34 8
ODIs 271 265 14496 10412 337 6/12 6/12 30.89 4.30 43.0 8 2 0
First-class 232 63722 27678 1096 10/74 25.25 2.60 58.1 71 19
List A 380 20247 14178 514 6/12 6/12 27.58 4.20 39.3 14 3 0
Twenty20 2 2 47 46 4 2/20 2/20 11.50 5.87 11.7 0 0 0
Career statistics Statistics Statsguru Tests Statsguru ODIs
Test debut England v India at Manchester, Aug 9-14, 1990 scorecard
Last Test India v Pakistan at Bangalore, Dec 8-12, 2007 scorecard
ODI debut India v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, Apr 25, 1990 scorecard
Last ODI Bermuda v India at Port of Spain, Mar 19, 2007 scorecard
First-class debut 1989/90
Last First-class India v Pakistan at Bangalore, Dec 8-12, 2007 scorecard
List A debut 1989/90
Last List A Bermuda v India at Port of Spain, Mar 19, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut Gloucestershire v Surrey at Bristol, Jul 24, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20 Nottinghamshire v Surrey at Nottingham, Aug 12, 2006 scorecard
Profile
No bowler in history has won India more Test matches than Anil Kumble, and there probably hasn't been a harder trier either. Like the great tall wristspinners Bill O'Reilly and his own idol BS Chandrasekhar, Kumble trades the legspinner's proverbial yo-yo for a spear, as the ball hacks through the air rather than hanging in it and comes off the pitch with a kick rather than a kink. It is a method that has provided him stunning success, particularly on Indian soil, where his deliveries burst like packets of water upon the feeblest hint of a crack, and more than one modern-day batsman has remarked that there is no more difficult challenge in cricket than handling Kumble on a wearing surface.
Kumble's prodigious capacity to bear pain was proved in Antigua in 2002 when he bandaged his fractured jaw to deliver a stirring spell, and that to continuously learn when, in the mid-2000s, after a decade of middling away performances, he influenced memorable wins in Headingley, Adelaide, Multan and Kingston, using an improved googly, bigger sidespin and more variation in flight and on the crease.
In a brilliant though always downplayed career Kumble has claimed virtually every Indian record. In 1999 in Delhi he swallowed all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan. In December 2001, on home turf in Bangalore, he became the India's first spinner to take 300 Test wickets. A year later, almost to the day, he became the first to do so in one-dayers. In August 2007 at The Oval he went past Glenn McGrath's 563 wickets to move to No.3 on the all-time list, behind only Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan, emphasising his contribution to spin's golden era. And in that same Test he chalked up what, judging by the pure ecstasy of his reaction and the dressing room's, was perhaps his most cherished feat of all - a Test century that had been 17 years and 118 matches in the coming.
Less than a month after his 37th birthday, though, he received the ultimate honour when he was named India's Test captain for the home series against Pakistan.
Rahul Bhattacharya November 2007
India
Player profile
Full name Anil Kumble
Born October 17, 1970, Bangalore, Karnataka
Current age 37 years 62 days
Major teams India, ACC Asian XI, Karnataka, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Surrey
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 121 154 30 2240 110* 18.06 5737 39.04 1 4 270 9 54 0
ODIs 271 136 47 938 26 10.53 1536 61.06 0 0 57 6 85 0
First-class 232 297 59 5288 154* 22.21 7 16 114 0
List A 380 203 73 1456 30* 11.20 0 0 122 0
Twenty20 2 1 0 8 8 8.00 7 114.28 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 121 217 37773 16739 584 10/74 14/149 28.66 2.65 64.6 29 34 8
ODIs 271 265 14496 10412 337 6/12 6/12 30.89 4.30 43.0 8 2 0
First-class 232 63722 27678 1096 10/74 25.25 2.60 58.1 71 19
List A 380 20247 14178 514 6/12 6/12 27.58 4.20 39.3 14 3 0
Twenty20 2 2 47 46 4 2/20 2/20 11.50 5.87 11.7 0 0 0
Career statistics Statistics Statsguru Tests Statsguru ODIs
Test debut England v India at Manchester, Aug 9-14, 1990 scorecard
Last Test India v Pakistan at Bangalore, Dec 8-12, 2007 scorecard
ODI debut India v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, Apr 25, 1990 scorecard
Last ODI Bermuda v India at Port of Spain, Mar 19, 2007 scorecard
First-class debut 1989/90
Last First-class India v Pakistan at Bangalore, Dec 8-12, 2007 scorecard
List A debut 1989/90
Last List A Bermuda v India at Port of Spain, Mar 19, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut Gloucestershire v Surrey at Bristol, Jul 24, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20 Nottinghamshire v Surrey at Nottingham, Aug 12, 2006 scorecard
Profile
No bowler in history has won India more Test matches than Anil Kumble, and there probably hasn't been a harder trier either. Like the great tall wristspinners Bill O'Reilly and his own idol BS Chandrasekhar, Kumble trades the legspinner's proverbial yo-yo for a spear, as the ball hacks through the air rather than hanging in it and comes off the pitch with a kick rather than a kink. It is a method that has provided him stunning success, particularly on Indian soil, where his deliveries burst like packets of water upon the feeblest hint of a crack, and more than one modern-day batsman has remarked that there is no more difficult challenge in cricket than handling Kumble on a wearing surface.
Kumble's prodigious capacity to bear pain was proved in Antigua in 2002 when he bandaged his fractured jaw to deliver a stirring spell, and that to continuously learn when, in the mid-2000s, after a decade of middling away performances, he influenced memorable wins in Headingley, Adelaide, Multan and Kingston, using an improved googly, bigger sidespin and more variation in flight and on the crease.
In a brilliant though always downplayed career Kumble has claimed virtually every Indian record. In 1999 in Delhi he swallowed all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan. In December 2001, on home turf in Bangalore, he became the India's first spinner to take 300 Test wickets. A year later, almost to the day, he became the first to do so in one-dayers. In August 2007 at The Oval he went past Glenn McGrath's 563 wickets to move to No.3 on the all-time list, behind only Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan, emphasising his contribution to spin's golden era. And in that same Test he chalked up what, judging by the pure ecstasy of his reaction and the dressing room's, was perhaps his most cherished feat of all - a Test century that had been 17 years and 118 matches in the coming.
Less than a month after his 37th birthday, though, he received the ultimate honour when he was named India's Test captain for the home series against Pakistan.
Rahul Bhattacharya November 2007
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