Sri Lanka won the first semi-final over India at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, in front of a crowd unofficially estimated at 110,000. He surprised Azhar Mahmood with his bounce and had him snapped up by Mongia. Sri Lanka won the toss in the final and sent Australia in to bat despite the team batting first having won all five previous World Cup finals. The Zimbabweans too found him difficult to score off as he took two for 33 off 9.4 overs. India hosted 17 matches at 17 different venues, while Pakistan hosted 16 matches at 6 venues and Sri Lanka hosted 4 matches at 3 venues. In 2007, at the age of 37, he took over the captaincy from Rahul Dravid with the team going through tumultuous times after the 2007 World Cup debacle.

Kumble made his first-class debut for Karnataka against Hyderabad on 30 November 1989, taking 4 wickets and bagging a pair.
which the team won by 1–0. Kumble was the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 15 wickets at an average of 18.73. The bevy of spinners that made to the top bowlers list showcased how most tracks were laid out. It was a second World Cup to be hosted by Pakistan and India, and for the first time by Sri Lanka. He declared the 2nd innings of India with only 6 overs of play left in the drawn match. He took 4 wickets in the match.Anil played his debut Test match against England national cricket team.He picked 3 wickets in the second match of the series.Anil picked 18 wickets with the average of 25.94 at the economy rate of 1.84 in the four match series against South Africa in 1992.He picked 21 wickets against the series with England in the same year.In the third match of the series he picked 7 wickets for 165 runs and was awarded the Man of the Match award. The tournament was won by Sri Lanka, which defeated Australia in the final at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Read more on Latest History News on India.com. Kumble has bowled 40850 balls in his entire Test career, which is second highest after M Muralitharan's 44039 balls. 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. Kumble is a right-arm leg spinner (legbreak googly) with an unorthodox style, most famous for his flipper. He took two for 41 in a distressing defeat at the hands of Zimbabwe, dismissing Alistair Campbell and Guy Whittall in quick succession. Anil Kumble (pronunciation ; born 17 October 1970) is a former Indian cricketer, coach, and commentator, who played Tests and ODIs for 18 years. In the semi-final they subsequently lost to Sri Lanka in which Kumble's performance was 1 for 51.

Kumble's 600 wickets came in 124 matches at an average of 28.68. This performance helped him earn a place in the Indian side that toured South Africa and Zimbabwe. It was the first time a tournament host or co-host had won the cricket World Cup. The thinker and the fighter that he is, the blemish in his resume was certainly not lost on Kumble. Early domestic career and international debut, Setting records and rise through the ranks, Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, 5 wickets in a Test innings more than 30 times, List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Anil Kumble, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anil_Kumble&oldid=985409424, Among the 16 cricketers shortlisted for the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the 20th Century, in 2002 (, 'Best breakthrough performance IPL 2009' for his five-for-five against, Kumble holds the record for getting 10 wickets in a single innings of a test match. 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. This was the first ever official ODI between two ICC Associate teams. His best performance came against Hampshire in a drawn match in County Championship, picking up 13 wickets for 192 runs. He became a more complete bowler and succeeded in overhauling Kapil Dev’s record tally of Test wickets for India. The year 1996 proved to very successful for him as he was selected for the World Cup and emerged out as the most successful bowler of the tournament; he played seven matches and captured 15 wickets at an average of 18.73. Kumble achieved the record just after the tea break when he had Andrew Symonds caught by Rahul Dravid at first slip. Kumble agreed to honour his contract with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) franchise of the Indian Premier League after retirement.

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. Kumble was the leading wicket-taker by a large margin when Australia visited India for Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 1998. To add lustre to these achievements is his feat of capturing all 10 wickets in a Test innings, only the second man to do so after the English off-spinner Jim Laker. As a result of this decision, Sri Lanka automatically qualified for the quarter-finals before playing a game. In October 2019, he was appointed as the Head Coach and the Director of Cricket Operations for Kings XI Punjab. Kumble's World Cup journey begins in 1996. Sri Lanka's total of 398/5 surpassed England's 363/7 against Pakistan in 1992 as the highest score in all ODIs. All Rights Reserved. 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. Reaching the mark took him 30 fewer Test matches than it took Kapil Dev, and 7 fewer than Warne. Note: The above tally does not include the two matches forfeited by Australia and West Indies (they refused to travel to Sri Lanka to play their league matches for security reasons). In 1999 while playing against Pakistan, Kumble dismissed all ten batsmen in a Test match innings, joining England's Jim Laker as the only players to achieve the feat. Anil Kumble's term of one year ended after the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. The Sri Lankans, coached by Dav Whatmore and captained by Arjuna Ranatunga, used Man of the Series Sanath Jayasuriya[1] and Romesh Kaluwitharana as opening batsmen to take advantage of the fielding restrictions during the first 15 overs of each innings. Even the greats struggle sometimes in conditions not suitable to their craft. On 24 June 2016 he was appointed as the head coach of the Indian Cricket Team by BCCI for a period of one year but resigned due to untenable differences with the captain, Virat Kohli, as stated by him. Sticking to the subcontinent traditions of having strips on which the slower bowlers could thrive on, the bowlers made merry. PTI Kapil Dev undergoes angioplasty after complaining of chest pain. The three Associate teams (previously one) to qualify through the 1994 ICC Trophy – the United Arab Emirates, Kenya and the Netherlands – also made their World Cup debuts in 1996. "Records / One-Day Internationals / Team records / Highest innings totals", "10 Guinness World Records held by cricket", "Netherlands v South Africa – Wills World Cup 1995/96 (Group B)", England / Scotland / Wales / Ireland / Netherlands 1999, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1996_Cricket_World_Cup&oldid=979800541, International cricket competitions from 1994–95 to 1997, International cricket competitions in India, International cricket competitions in Pakistan, International cricket competitions in Sri Lanka, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan prospered in the business because they found new tricks. After extensive negotiations, the ICC ruled that Sri Lanka would be awarded both games on forfeit. 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.

I see the Coach's role akin to 'holding a mirror' to drive self-improvement in the team's interest. ... and former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar feels that head coach Anil Kumble's fighting spirit … Unlike his contemporaries, Kumble was not a big turner of the ball, but relied primarily on pace, bounce, and accuracy. His fearsome partner Jeff Thomson did not relish bowling on the softer English wickets. As a captain and coach, he is a firm supporter of DRS. 4) 3/35 vs West Indies (1996) In 1996, India played West Indies in their World Cup encounter at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior. Women's T20 World Cup; ICC World Cup Movies. India eventually went on to win the Titan Cup. That India had a poor record away from home over a long period was in part somewhat linked to Kumble’s inability to strike on wickets not amenable to spin.

On 18 April 2009 he took a five-wicket haul conceding just 5 runs 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. It was also the only hundred by an Indian in the three-Test series. He was then selected for India Under-19s against Pakistan Under-19s, scoring 113 in the first test and 76 in the second. Kumble became a part of the regular ODI team during the early 1990s and held some of the best performances during this time; which included his six for 12 (six wickets for 12 runs) against the West Indies. After they had lost both openers cheaply, Sri Lanka launched a stunning counter-attack led by Aravinda de Silva to post a strong total of 251 for 8, in the chase India began promisingly but after the loss of Sachin Tendulkar's prized wicket they had slumped to 120 for 8 in the 35th over when sections of the crowd began to throw fruit and plastic bottles onto the field. Sri Lanka, in addition to offering maximum security to the teams, questioned the validity of citing security concerns when the International Cricket Council had determined it was safe. That is not easy to figure out. For a long time, Anil Kumble was somewhat of an enigma.

He made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Sharjah in the Austral-Asia Cup on 25 April 1990. At the same time, he was relatively unsuccessful overseas with his quickish wrist-spin. As Miandad battled on, Kumble continued to snipe at the batsmen. A right-arm leg spin (leg break googly) bowler, he took 619 wickets in Test cricket and remains the third-highest wicket taker of all time (as of 2020, behind Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne). 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. With the ball, he conjured up many tricks that left batsmen perplexed. 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. These are four top-class Australians who have represented world-beating teams. This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 21:24. Since then he has represented the Indian Test team on more than 132 Test matches and was responsible for many of India's victories. Let not Kumble, a modern giant among spinners, be singled out. After having played for 18 years, he announced his retirement from international cricket in November 2008.

We must also not forget that the peerless Shane Warne failed on Indian pitches and against Indian batsmen. This record was broken by Stuart Binny on 17 June 2014 against Bangladesh.