NEW DELHI: Veteran spinner Anil Kumble has retired from one-day cricket after India’s early World Cup exit but will continue playing Test matches, media reports said on Wednesday.
Kumble, India’s most successful bowler in both forms of the game, revealed his retirement to teammates in Port of Spain soon after India were knocked out of the tournament last week, the reports said.
The 36-year-old had already said the World Cup would be his last one-day assignment before the team departed for the Caribbean in February.
The leg-spinner had not been an automatic selection in the shorter game in recent times even though his 547 wickets in 113 Tests and 337 wickets in 271 one-dayers are the most by any Indian bowler.
Kumble, playing his fourth World Cup, got just one preliminary game against first-timers Bermuda as spin partner Harbhajan Singh was preferred for the more important matches against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
India lost both games to record their worst World Cup performance since the 1979 edition in England when they also won just one match.
Kumble is best known for taking all 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan in New Delhi in 1999, only the second bowler to achieve the feat after Englishman Jim Laker.
Kumble will return home with the rest of the World Cup squad on Thursday (today).
India’s next international assignment is a three-week tour of Bangladesh in May comprising two Tests and three One-day Internationals (ODIs).
You dont have to insult some one just because he happens to be Indian. Get out of that ghetto mentality. He definitly was one of the finest of his generation. A unique bowler and a cricket who has won more test matches for India than any other cricketer including Dravid, Sachin, Gavaskar or Kapi dev. He was a fighter and has given a lot to Indian cricket and world cricket. He never gave up even in tiring situations. He along with Warne and Murali were the people who got people to get intrested in spin bowling again.
Name a bowler at present in south asia whom you can compare with Anil…probably the highest qualified man in the world Cricket…this guy holds a degree in Engineering, if I am not wrong.
Gentleman…aah Kyaa baat hai…I have hardly heard Anil, involving in any controversy.
A married person, proud father…what else, I can’t say much here, English dictionary is proving useless though…
As a Cricket fan, I can write a poetry in Hindi for him
Anil Kumble's face expressions were of the most un-gentleman ... sorry to say... and no it is not about being indian.... Rahul Dravid is a Gentleman and he is indian so there is nothing about being indian.. I just think that Kumble was the most "SaRailu" insaan when bowling.
^ I agree - but then again Srinath was worse...and if a man is a gentleman because he is a husband (who doesnt get linked with anyone else) and a father then i guess everyone man who is married and not had an affair and a father is just as good as him; its about how he used to be on the field i guess/ his attitude etc and not his personal family life.
I guess this has more to do with THEM rather than HIM. He couldn’t have achieved it without those white coat creatures on the field.
So we should probably say THEY were good at home
teaser paa chad yar, tu srinath di yateem bhooti pulna pyaa ven yara! can you please dig into your old videos and post a screenshot of that famous srinath yateem look please, ill pay money just to see it again!
also, ive been watching kumble since that 93 series india played against SA, while i didnt like him at all, the fact remains, he was a lethal bowler, and used a little bit of pace to his advantage. Once he showed immense bravery by playing with a bandaged head (i personally think he was taking a huge risk though)...
Kumble … He was definitely a legendary bowler, who took all 10 wickets in a test innings against Pakistan thanks to that Hejra umpire.
