Anil Kumble
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Anil Radhakrishna Kumble | |||
| Born | 17 October 1970 Bengaluru, India |
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| Nickname | Jumbo | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg break | |||
| Role | Bowler and Test captain | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | India | |||
| Test debut (cap 192) | 9 August 1990 v England | |||
| Last Test | 29 October 2008 v Australia | |||
| ODI debut (cap 78) | 25 April 1990 v Sri Lanka | |||
| Last ODI | 19 March 2007 v Bermuda | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1989/90 – 2008/09 | Karnataka | |||
| 2006 | Surrey | |||
| 2000 | Leicestershire | |||
| 1995 | Northamptonshire | |||
| 2008–2010 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | ODI | FC | LA |
| Matches | 132 | 271 | 244 | 380 |
| Runs scored | 2,506 | 938 | 5,572 | 1,456 |
| Batting average | 17.65 | 10.54 | 21.68 | 11.20 |
| 100s/50s | 1/5 | 0/0 | 7/17 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 110* | 26 | 154* | 30* |
| Balls bowled | 40,850 | 14,496 | 66,931 | 20,247 |
| Wickets | 619 | 337 | 1,136 | 514 |
| Bowling average | 29.65 | 30.89 | 25.83 | 27.58 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 35 | 2 | 72 | 3 |
| 10 wickets in match | 8 | n/a | 19 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 10/74 | 6/12 | 10/74 | 6/12 |
| Catches/stumpings | 60/– | 85/– | 120/– | 122/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 8 November 2008 | ||||
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(born 17 October 1970 in Bangalore,
Karnataka) is a former Indian cricketer
and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin
(legbreak
googly)
bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading
wicket-taker for India in both Test
and One Day International matches. At
present he is the third highest wicket-taker in Test cricket and one of
only three bowlers to have taken more than 600 Test wickets. Kumble has
had success bowling with other spinners, notably Venkatapathy Raju and Rajesh Chauhan in the 1990s and Harbhajan Singh since 2000. He is considered as one of the
greatest spinners of all time.Kumble was appointed the captain of the Indian Test cricket team on 8 November 2007.[1] His first assignment as captain was the three-test home series against Pakistan that India won 1–0. Then he led the Indian Test team on its tour to Australia for the 2007–08 four-test series of The Border-Gavaskar Trophy that India lost 1–2. Kumble succeeded his state team mate Rahul Dravid, who resigned as the captain in September 2007.[2] Since his debut in international cricket on 25 April 1990, he has taken 619 Test wickets and 337 ODI wickets. Although often criticised as not a big turner of the ball,[3] Kumble is the second highest wicket taker among leg spinners in Test cricket behind leg spinner Shane Warne of Australia and the third of all bowlers after Warne and off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka and has claimed 619 Test wickets. He is one of only two bowlers in the history of cricket to have taken all 10 wickets in a test innings, the other being Jim Laker of England.[4] He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour, by the Government of India in 2005. After playing for India for 18 years, he announced his retirement on 2 November 2008. His last match was against Australia at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.
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Personal life
Anil Kumble was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka to KN Krishna Swamy and Saroja.[5] His family, takes its name from Kumble village, situated in Kasaragod district, Kerala:[6] He is married to Chethana Ramatheertha.[7] Anil has 3 children – daughter Aaruni (from Chethana's previous marriage), son Mayas and the youngest Svasti (daughter)[8][9]Kumble began playing cricket on streets of Bengaluru and joined a club called Young Cricketers when he was 13 years old. Kumble did his primary schooling at Holy Saint English School and his high schooling at National High School, Basavanagudi. He got his Pre-University College education from National College, Basavanagudi. Kumble graduated from Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 1991–92. Kumble was studious by disposition. Prior to his selection for the England tour, he did exceedingly well in his academics, passing mechanical engineering with distinction in the top of his class. Two of his college team mates, M.P. Vivek and Rashid Mohsin went on to have scintillating but short lived first class careers. Kumble has a brother named Dinesh. He is nicknamed Jumbo not only because his deliveries, for a spinner, are "as fast as a Jumbo jet".,[5] but also because his feet are quite big or Jumbo as observed by his team-mates.
Career
He made his first-class debut for Karnataka against Hyderabad on 30, November 1989, taking 4 wickets and bagging a pair. He was selected for India Under-19s against Pakistan Under-19s, scoring 113 in the first test and 76 in the second. He made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Sharjah in the Australasia Cup on 25 April 1990. He also made his Test debut in that year on India's tour of England in the second Test. It was when India toured South Africa in 1992 that he established himself as a quality international spinner, taking 8 wickets in the second Test. Later that year, when England toured India, he took 21 wickets in just 3 Test matches at an average of 19.8.
He took his first 50 Test wickets in just 10 Test matches, the fastest by an Indian bowler to achieve the milestone. He went on to become the second fastest Indian bowler to reach 100 Test wickets (in 21 Test matches), after Erapalli Prasanna. On 27 November 1993, he took 6 wickets for 12 runs in an ODI against the West Indies at Calcutta, then a new record for best bowling figures in ODIs. Though it has since been surpassed, it still remains the best bowling figures in ODIs by an Indian.
His performance in ODI cricket peaked in 1996, the year in which the World Cup was held in Asia, when he took 61 ODI wickets at an average of 20.24 and an economy rate of 4.06.
Kumble is one of only two bowlers ever (the other being Jim Laker) 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 between 4 and 8 February 1999.[11] 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 9 wickets his friend and teammate Javagal Srinath started bowling wide off stumps, and was called twice, so that Kumble could take the 10th. [12] The achievement was commemorated by naming a traffic circle in Bangalore after him.
On 6 October 2004, Kumble became only the third spinner in the history of Test cricket (after Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan) and the second Indian bowler (after Kapil Dev) to capture 400 Test wickets. Reaching the mark took him 30 fewer Test matches than it took Kapil Dev, and 7 fewer than Warne. He is one of only 2 Indian bowlers (the other being Javagal Srinath) and one of only four spinners (the others being Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, and Shahid Afridi) to have taken over 300 ODI wickets. In the India-West Indies series of 2006, Kumble took 6–78 in the second innings of the final Test in Sabina Park, Jamaica, and bowled India to a historic series victory; it had been 35 years since a similar series victory. During the first innings of the match, Kumble scored 45 and became the second player in the history of the game (after Warne) to score 2000 runs and take over 500 Test wickets. Anil Kumble also holds the world record for most wickets leg before wicket (lbw)[13]
Towards the end of his career, Anil Kumble came up with yet another potent weapon in his armoury – a googly or the wrong 'un which was reportedly delivered with a more orthodox grip and worked upon, using a tennis ball during practice.[15]
On 10 August 2007, Kumble scored his maiden century, with an innings of 110 not out against England to help them finish with 664. He took 118 Test matches to reach his maiden Test hundred, which is a record, beating Chaminda Vaas who had held this record previously with 96 Tests. It was also the only hundred by an Indian in the 3 Test series.[16] He is the only Test cricketer to have taken all ten wickets in an innings and score a Test hundred in his career. A day after scoring his ton, Kumble dismissed Vaughan for his 900th International wicket and 563rd Test wicket, drawing him level with Glenn McGrath. Later he trapped Monty Panesar for an LBW to finish the innings and overtake McGrath in the list of all time wicket takers, only Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne have more wickets.
He is one of the 4 bowlers, alongside Richard Hadlee, Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan, and the only Indian bowler ever, to have taken 5 wickets in a Test innings more than 30 times. He also holds the world record for the largest number of caught-and-bowled dismissals in tests, 35 – which forms 5.65% of his total wickets. His ODI bowling average, which is above 30, is considered high compared to other great bowlers, and he is known to be a much better bowler in India than elsewhere. He is also one of 4 Indian bowlers to have conceded over 250 runs in a Test match, although he took 12 wickets in that match. He is known for bowling tirelessly, having bowled 72 overs in a Test innings once. He is also remembered for his tenacity in bowling even when injured, especially after an incident in a match against West Indies where, despite having his broken jaw being heavily taped, he came back to prise out the wicket of Brian Lara.
His Test batting average is acceptable for a lower order batsmen; however, his unconvincing running in ODIs, giving him a fairly ordinary average of around 10, has prevented him from becoming an all-rounder. His fielding is considered adequate and he usually fields on the boundary or at gully.
On 17 January 2008, in the third Test against Australia at WACA, Perth, Anil Kumble became the first Indian bowler and the third in the world to reach the milestone of 600 Test wickets. Kumble achieved the record just after the tea break when he had Andrew Symonds caught by Rahul Dravid at first slip. In a friendly gesture, Adam Gilchrist shook hands with Kumble and congratulated him. Kumble would go on to lead India to its first Test victory in Perth and deny Australia a record of 17 consecutive test victories. Kumble's 600 wickets came in 124 matches at an average of 28.68. Kumble has captured most number of wickets against Australia by an Indian bowler. He has taken 104 Australian scalps in 17 matches at an average of 27.5.
Kumble is the third bowler after Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne to take 600 Test wickets. Paying tribute to Kumble on reaching this milestone, cricket analysts have provided some interesting insights to his bowling skills, specifically vis-a-vis Warne and Muralitharan. Sambit Bal, the editor of Cricinfo, writes:[17]
"That he [Kumble] has been an unusual spinner has been said many times before. It has also been said, a trifle unfairly, that he is a unidimensional bowler. Palpably, he has lacked the turn of Warne and Murali, but his variety has been subtler, far more apparent to batsmen than to viewers. He has shown that not only turn and flight that can deceive the batsman but also the changes of length and pace. He has been a cultured practitioner of his unique craft and a master of nuances."Columnist and former cricketer Peter Roebuck interestingly argues that in a bowling method that relies more on precision rather than big turns, Kumble is closer to fast bowler Glenn McGrath rather than his fellow spinners Warne and Muralitharan:[18]
"Curiously, Kumble has little in common with his two great contemporaries, Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan. They relied on excess, spinning the ball ferociously and able, by sleight of hand, to fool batsmen into playing at thin air. They created error by destroying hope. Kumble more closely resembles Glenn McGrath because he does not so much baffle batsmen as torture them with precisely-pitched deliveries. Like the Australian, he does not tear opponents apart, just works away methodically till the deed has been done. Apparently he is an engineer, but he belongs in the courts of law as an inquisitor."During the 4th test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval on 25 January 2008, Kumble was only 13 runs short of his 2nd test hundred by scoring 87 runs off 205 balls, with 9 fours in India's first innings of 526. Only Sachin Tendulkar scored more than he did, with 153 runs off 205 balls.
