Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble ( pronunciation ⓘ; born 17

October 1970) is an Indian former cricket
captain, coach and commentator who
played Test and One Day International
cricket for his national team over an
international career of 18 years.[1] Widely
regarded as one of the best leg spin
bowlers in Test Cricket History, he took
619 wickets in Test cricket and is the
fourth highest wicket taker of all time as of
2022. In 1999 while playing against
Pakistan, Kumble dismissed all ten
batsmen in a Test match innings, joining
England's Jim Laker as the second player
to achieve the feat.[2][3][4] Unlike his
contemporaries, Kumble was not a big
turner of the ball, but relied primarily on
pace, bounce, and accuracy. He was
nicknamed "Apple" [5] and "Jumbo".[6]
Kumble was selected as the Cricketer of
the Year in 1993 Indian Cricket, and one of
the Wisden Cricketers of the Year three
years later. Kumble was a member of the
Indian team that was one of the joint-
winners of the 2002 ICC Champions
Trophy, which the title was also shared
with Sri Lanka.

Born in Bangalore, Mysore State (now

Karnataka), Kumble developed an early
interest in cricket as he grew up watching
players like B. S. Chandrasekhar before
becoming a full-fledged cricketer. He made
his First-class debut at the age of 19 while
representing Karnataka. Soon he was
picked up for the Austral-Asia Cup in 1990
before making his Test debut against
England later that year. Since then he has
represented the Indian Test team on more
than 132 Test matches and was
responsible for many of India's victories.
Kumble became a
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part of the regular
ODI team during the
early 1990s and
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International
Kumble was
information
awarded the Padma
Shri, India's fourth- National India
side (1990–
highest civilian
2008)
honour in 2005.
After having played
for 18 years, he Test 9 August
announced his debut 1990 v Eng
retirement from (cap 192)

international cricket Last 29 October

in November 2008. Test 2008 v Australia

In October 2012, ODI 25 April

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appointed the (cap 78) Lanka

chairman of the Last 19 March

International Cricket ODI 2007 v Bermuda

Council (ICC)'s ODI 37

cricket committee.[7] shirt no. (previously
18, 8)
Between 2012 and
Domestic team
2015, Kumble held
information
positions as a chief Years Team
mentor for the 1989/90– Karn
teams Royal 2008/09
Challengers 1995 Northam
Bangalore and 2000 Leicester
Mumbai Indians in
2006 Surrey
the Indian Premier
2008– Royal
League. He was
2010 Challen
also a former head
Bangalo
coach of the Indian
Career statistics
cricket team as well.
In February 2015, he
became the fourth
Indian cricketer to
be inducted into ICC
Hall of Fame.
Kumble is currently
the head coach and Competition
the director of Matches
cricket operations of
Runs scored
Punjab Kings.[8]
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Personal life 100s/50s

Top score

Balls bowled

Wickets

Kumble was born to Bowling average

family in Bangalore, 5 wickets in innings

Mysore State (now 10 wickets in match
Karnataka), to
Best bowling
Krishna Swamy and
Catches/stumpings
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from Kumbla near Source: espncricinfo
Kasaragod, (http://www.espncri
Kerala.[9][10] Kumble cinfo.com/india/con

has a brother tent/player/30176.ht

ml) , 8 November
named Diinesh
2016
Kumble. He is
married to Chetana
Kumble,[11] and has three children – son
Mayas Kumble and daughters Aaruni and
Svasti Kumble.[12][13] His mother tongue is
Kannada.[14]

Kumble did his primary schooling in Holy

Saint English School and he completed his
Class X from National High School
Basavanagudi. He began playing cricket
on the streets of Bangalore and joined a
club called "Young Cricketers" at the age
of 13. After his high school he completed
his Class XII from National Pre-University
College Basavanagudi. Kumble later
graduated from Rashtreeya Vidyalaya
College of Engineering (RVCE) in B.E
Mechanical Engineering in 1991–92. He is
nicknamed "Jumbo" because his
deliveries, for a spinner, are "as fast as a
jumbo jet".[15] Kumble is a vegetarian.[16]
Career

Early domestic career and

international career

Kumble made his first-class debut for

Karnataka against Hyderabad on 30
November 1989, taking 4 wickets and
bagging a pair. He was then 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 Austral-
Asia Cup on 25 April 1990.[17] He played
one more game in the series against
Pakistan and ended up picking two
wickets. His Test debut came in the same
year when India toured England for a three-
test series.[18] It was the second test of the
series played at Manchester and he picked
up 3 wickets conceding 105 runs in the
first innings and went wicket-less in the
second innings of the match which
resulted in a draw.[19] He did not play any
Tests until 1992. Kumble picked up 13/138
in Irani Trophy against Delhi for Rest of
India which ensured the latter's
victory.[20][21] This performance helped him
earn a place in the Indian side that toured
South Africa and Zimbabwe. It was during
the 1992 Indian tour of South Africa that
he established himself as a quality spinner,
taking eight wickets in the second Test. All
in all he took 18 wickets at an average of
25.94 and with an economy rate of 1.84 in
the four-test series.[22] Later that year,
when England toured India, Kumble took
21 wickets in three Tests at an average of
19.8.[23] He picked up seven wickets for
165 runs in the third Test of the series
played at Bombay as India went on to win
the match by an innings and 15 runs.[24]
He was adjudged man of the match for his
performance.[25]

Kumble took his first 50 Test wickets in 10

matches; the record remained the fastest
by an Indian bowler until Ravichandran
Ashwin surpassed him achieving the feat
in nine matches. His 100 Test wickets in
21 Test matches, the second fastest by an
Indian bowler[26] after Erapalli Prasanna
(who took 100 wickets in 20 matches). On
27 November 1993, he took six wickets for
12 runs in an ODI against the West Indies
at Eden Gardens, Calcutta in the final of
the Hero Cup, which was an Indian record
for very long time.[27][28] This record was
broken by Stuart Binny on 17 June 2014
against Bangladesh.[29] In January 1994,
when Sri Lanka toured India, Kumble
picked up his first 10 wicket haul in his
14th match which ensured India's victory
by an innings and 119 runs. He picked up
11 wickets for 128 runs in the match.[30]

In 1995 English cricket season Kumble

played for Northamptonshire and was the
leading wicket taker with 105 wickets at
the average of 20.40.[31] He was the only
bowler to take more than 100 wickets
during that season.[32] His best
performance came against Hampshire in a
drawn match in County Championship,
picking up 13 wickets for 192 runs.[33] This
performance in the English county cricket
was noted by Wisden as they named him
one of their five Cricketers of the Year in
1996.[34]
1996 World Cup

The year 1996 proved to be extremely

successful for Kumble as he claimed 61
ODI wickets at an average of 20.24.[35] All
in all, he was the leading wicket-taker in
the calendar year with 90 wickets at an
average of 24.14 in Tests and ODIs
combined.[36] Kumble was selected in the
Indian side for the 1996 World Cup. He
was a part of all the seven matches that
India played. Kumble was the leading
wicket-taker in the tournament with 15
wickets at an average of 18.73.[37] India
played their first match against Kenya
where Kumble took three for 28 runs,
which helped to restrict Kenya for just
199/6 in their 50 overs. India won the
match comfortably by seven wickets.[38] In
the subsequent matches he picked up
three for 35 runs (against West Indies) and
two wickets for 39 runs (against Sri Lanka)
in group phase.[39][40]

India played against Pakistan in the

quarter-final phase. Kumble picked up 3
for 48 in the match which India eventually
won.[41] In the semi-final they subsequently
lost to Sri Lanka in which Kumble's
performance was 1 for 51.[42]
Setting records and rise through the
ranks

Anil Kumble bowling in the Boxing

Day Test Match at Melbourne

In October 1996, Anil Kumble along with

Javagal Srinath helped India to win a
scintillating ODI match against Australia in
Bangalore 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.[43][44] 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.[45] 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.[46]
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.[47]

Kumble is one of three bowlers ever (the

other two being Jim Laker of England in
1956 and Ajaz Patel of New Zealand in
2021) 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.[48] 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.[49] The performance
was rated by Wisden as the second best
"Bowling performance of all time".[50] The
achievement was commemorated by
naming a traffic circle in Bengaluru after
him,[51] and gifting him a car with the
customized license plate: KA-10-N-10.[52]
In 1999 he was the third highest wicket
taker with 88 wickets at the average of
30.03 behind Glenn Mcgrath and Shane
Warne.[36]

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 a wicket.

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.[53] Reaching the mark took him 30
fewer Test matches than it took Kapil Dev,
and 7 fewer than Warne. 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 win; 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 Shane Warne to
score 2000 runs and take over 500 Test
wickets. Kumble also holds the world
record for trapping most batsmen leg
before wicket.[54] On 10 December 2004,
Kumble became India's highest wicket-
taker when he trapped Mohammad
Rafique of Bangladesh to surpass Kapil
Dev's haul of 434 wickets.

Kumble also played for ACC Asian XI

against ICC World XI in World cricket
tsunami appeal ODI match on 10 January
2005 held at the Melbourne cricket ground
which was organised for the charity
purpose for 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
and tsunami victims. In the match, he
picked up 2/73 and scored 11 runs off 7
balls.[55] For his performances in 2005, he
was named as 12th man in the Test World
Test XI by ICC.
Kumble claimed his 500th Test wicket in
the Second Test of England's tour of India
in March 2006, when he dismissed Steve
Harmison lbw. He became the first Indian
and fifth overall to reach the mark.[56] After
returning to India from the 2007 World
Cup, he announced his retirement from
ODIs, on 30 March.[57]

On 10 August that year, Kumble scored his

maiden Test century, making an unbeaten
110 against England at the Oval to help his
team finish with 664. He took 118 Tests to
reach his maiden Test hundred, which is a
record for taking the most matches to
score a century, beating Chaminda Vaas
who had held this record previously with
96 Tests. It was also the only hundred by
an Indian in the three-Test series.[58] 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 McGrath.
Later he trapped Monty Panesar for an lbw
to finish the innings and overtake McGrath
in the list of all-time wicket-takers,[59] only
Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne
have more wickets.
Kumble has bowled 40850 balls in his
entire Test career, which is second highest
after M Muralitharan's 44039 balls.

Kumble was appointed as the captain of

the Indian Test cricket team on 8
November 2007.[60] He succeeded his
state teammate Rahul Dravid, who
resigned as the captain in September
2007.[61] He is the only leg spinner who
have become the captain of the team. His
first series as captain of Indian Test team
was a three-match series against Pakistan
played in India.[60] which the team won by
1–0.[62][63]
 Kumble bowling in a match
against South Africa in 2008.

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.[64] Kumble
achieved the record just after the tea break
when he had Andrew Symonds caught by
Rahul Dravid at first slip.[64] Kumble's 600
wickets came in 124 matches at an
average of 28.68. Kumble has captured
most wickets against Australia by an
Indian bowler.[64] Kumble is the third
bowler after Muttiah Muralitharan and
Shane Warne to take 600 Test wickets.[64]

Retirement from International cricket

Kumble injured the little finger of his left

hand while attempting a catch off
Matthew Hayden in Australia's first innings
which rendered him unfit for the 4th and
final test of the series against Australia in
November 2008.[65] Kumble was finding it
difficult to find his striking form and went
wicketless in four consecutive innings
before the first innings of Australia in the
third test of the series against Australia in
which he managed three lower-order
wickets. He declared the 2nd innings of
India with only 6 overs of play left in the
drawn match. His final figures were 4–0–
14–0.

Anil Kumble announced his retirement

from International test cricket, first-class
cricket, and list A cricket appearances on 2
November 2008 in the 3rd Test match
against Australia at Feroz Shah Kotla
cricket stadium at New Delhi, India.[66] He
took the last wicket of his career of
Mitchell Johnson.[67] The final ball of his
test career was a low full toss on which
Matthew Hayden scored a four.[68] After
his retirement, MS Dhoni was made the
captain of the team.[69]

IPL career

Kumble agreed to honour his contract with

the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
franchise of the Indian Premier League
after retirement. He was given a three-year
contract worth US$500,000 per year in the
first round of bidding in 2008.[70]

On 18 April 2009 he took a five-wicket haul

conceding just 5 runs in 3.1 overs against
the defending champions Rajasthan
Royals, which helped RCB get a 75-run
victory in the second match of the 2009
edition, played in South Africa. Even today,
this remains the fourth-best bowling
figures in IPL history.[71][72] After the
departure of Kevin Pietersen for England's
cricket commitments, Kumble was named
as the captain of the Royal Challengers.
On 23 May 2009, his team defeated the
Chennai Super Kings by six wickets and
got a spot in the final against the Deccan
Chargers. RCB lost the finals but Kumble
won Man of the Match, and is the only
person in IPL history to win Man of the
Match in the finals despite being on the
losing side. Though RCB could not win the
tournament, Kumble ended as the most
successful spin bowler and the 2nd
highest wicket-taker of the tournament
with 21 wickets at an economy rate of
5.86 runs per over behind R. P. Singh.[73]

In 2010 Indian Premier League, Kumble led

the team to the semi-finals. After being
forced to play their semi-finals at the DY
Patil Stadium following security concerns
in Bangalore,[74] the Royal Challengers lost
their semi-final to the Mumbai Indians[75]
with Kumble taking 1 wicket at an
economy rate of 7.50 in the match.[76] For
his performances in 2010, he was named
in the ESPNcricinfo IPL XI.[77]
Kumble announced his retirement from
Indian Premier League on 4 January
2011.[78] After his retirement from IPL as a
player, RCB appointed him as the chief
mentor for the team, where he led them to
the 2011 Finals against the Chennai Super
Kings.[78] Kumble left that position in
January 2013, moving to a similar role
with the Mumbai Indians, which he quit in
November 2015 after delivering them 2
titles in alternative years.[79] He then
served as the director of operations for the
Punjab Kings.
One of the Wisden Cricketers of the
Year, in 1996.[100]
Among the 16 cricketers shortlisted for
the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the 20th
Century, in 2002[101] (Kapil Dev won)
Padma Shri, a civilian award from the
Government of India, in 2005.[102]
A prominent intersection in M. G. Road,
Bengaluru has been named after Anil
Kumble.[103]
'Best breakthrough performance IPL
2009' for his five-for-five against
Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2009.[104]
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, a sports award
from the ICC, in 2015.[105]
Records

Kumble is the most successful Indian

bowler of all time and fourth-highest
wicket-taker of all time in Tests. He took
35 five-wicket hauls and eight ten-wicket
hauls in Tests and two ODI five-wicket
hauls.

Kumble holds the record of bowling 40,850

balls in the entire Test career, which is the
highest for an Indian and second-highest
overall.[106]

Kumble is also one of six bowlers to take

900 or more wickets in their entire career,
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