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Anil Kumble born 17 October 1970 is a former international
cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team. A right-arm leg spin
(leg break googly) bowler, he took 619 wickets in Test cricket and remains the
third-highest wicket taker—only behind Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne—as
of 2015. Unlike his contemporaries, Kumble was not a big turner of the ball,
rather relied much on pace and accuracy. His ability to make the ball bounce
with subtle variations in pace made him a tough bowler to face for the batsmen;
thus earning him the sobriquet "Jumbo". Kumble was selected as the Indian
Cricket Cricketer of the Year in 1993 and one of the Wisden Cricketers of the
Year three years later.
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In October 1996, Anil Kumble along with Javagal Srinath
helped India to win a scintillating ODI match against Australia in Bengaluru in
Titan Cup.The duo added 52 runs for 9th wicket partnership, after Sachin
Tendulkar got out at 88 when India was 164/8, chasing a target of 216 runs.
India eventually went on to win the Titan Cup.In February 1997 India visited
the West Indies for a series of five tests and four ODIs. Kumble was part of
the squad and he was the leading wicket-taker in the Test series. He picked up
19 wickets, averaging 30.31 with the ball. Kumble was the leading wicket taker
by a large margin when Australia visited India for Border-Gavaskar Trophy in
1998. He picked up 23 wickets in 3 test matches at the average of 18.26.
Kumble is one of only two bowlers ever (the only other
being Jim Laker of England in 1956) to have taken all ten wickets in a Test
innings, taking 10 for 74. Kumble achieved this against Pakistan in the second
Test played in Delhi in February 1999. Although by failing to dismiss
Pakistan's Waqar Younis in either innings, he missed out on the achievement of
dismissing all eleven batsmen in a Test match. It has been said that once he
had got nine wickets his friend and teammate Javagal Srinath started bowling
wide outside the off stump, so that Kumble could take the 10th. The performance
was rated by Wisden as “The second best Bowling performance of all
time", The achievement was commemorated by naming a traffic circle in
Bengaluru after him, and gifting him a car with the customized license plate:
KA-10-N-10. In 1999 he was the third highest wicket taker with 88 wickets at
the average of 30.03 behind Glenn Mcgrath and Shane Warne.
When the Indian opener, Sadagoppan Ramesh tried to take a
catch off Srinath, he was cautioned by Javagal Srinath not to try and take any
catch so that Anil Kumble could take all 10 Wickets. This was revealed by
Ramesh in an interview via 10 Sports; about the particular match "Anil
Kumble’s 10 wickets against Pakistan at Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi in 1999″.When
Kumble was looking to take his tenth wicket in the India-Pakistan test in 1999,
Srinath, who was bowling from the other end, was trying to bowl way outside the
off stump to avoid taking the final wicket in order for Kumble to get to the
record. Anil Kumble always gives full credit to him for his perfect 10 against
Pakistan as Srinath bowled two wide balls in test match to avoid taking wicket.
Educational
Qualifications: B.E
from Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (RVCE) in Mechanical Engineering
in 1991–92.
Contributed by: Shyam Sridhar
Contributed by: Shyam Sridhar
References:
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Lal, Kuldip (7 February 1999). "Kumble
takes all 10 wickets as India rout Pakistan”. ESPN Cricinfo.
Retrieved 19 May 2012.
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Ayanjit Sen (2 December 2004). "Kumble reaps
reward for commitment". BBC. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
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Garg, Chitra (2010). Indian Champions
Profiles Of Famous Indian Sportspersons. Rajpal & Sons.
pp. 128–. ISBN 978-81-7028-852-7. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
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MD Ritti (15 February 1999). "10 wickets – and phone
overload". Rediff.com. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
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Abhijit Chatterjee. "Jumbo
spinner". The
Tribune. Retrieved 9 August 2007. Hemanth
Kashyap (14 July 2008). "Bitter-battle". MidDay. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
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Oral History : Interactions with Mr.Kumble himself
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