Anil Kumble also known by his teammates as Jumbo.He is a real fighter,gives his 100% on the cricket field.One such example was when he was batting against Adam Sanford of West Indies in a Test Match in the Carribean Islands.Adam Sanford West Indies fast bowler bowled a bouncer Kumble got that ball right in his jaw he was bleeding he stopped his batting & went to the pavilion retired hurt.But while India were bowling he came to bowl with a tape all over his face and got the crucial wicket of the master Brian Charles Lara.He is not a turner of the cricket bowls as you expect from Shane Warne or Danish Kaneria.But he sticks to Line and Length, Googlys & his flippers.
Anil Kumble in the second Test match of the 1998-99 season against Pakistan at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground,New Delhi went through the Pakistani side in the fourth innings picking up all the Ten Wickets.He became only the second man in the Test Cricket History after Jim Laker,of England who took Ten full wickets in the second innings of Australia Batting in the year 1956.Anil Kumble was unplayable on the 4th Day pitch.Pakistan who were chasing a target of 420 in the fourth innings were 100 for no lost.But they lost their first wicket when the score was 101 and were All Out for 207.Only four Pakinstani batsmen were able to make double figures in that innings.Saeed Anwar made 69,Shahid Afridi 41,Saleem Malik 15 and lower down order captain Wasim Akram made 37.India won that Test Match by 212 runs.Man Of the Match was given to Anil Kumble.
In December 2001, on his home turf at Bangalore, Kumble became India's second bowler, and their first spinner, to take 300 Test wickets. A year later, almost to the day, he passed the same mark in one-dayers. Against Australia in 2004-05 he pushed the Test mark past 400 - also at Bangalore - then skittled the Aussies in the next Test at Chennai with a spell of 7 for 25. In March 2006, He became the first Indian bowler to reach 500 Test wickets, when he trapped Steve Harmison lbw in the Mohali Test.
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