By Rajesh Kumar
New Delhi(IANS) : Evergreen leg-spinner Anil Kumble, who has been appointed India captain for the three-match home Test series against Pakistan, has his place assured in the hall of fame of cricket.
With 566 wickets in 118 Tests and 337 in 271 One-day Internationals, the 37-year-old is already the top Indian wicket taker in both versions of the game.
Kumble, who is one of the two bowlers who have taken all 10 wickets in a Test innings – the other being Jim Laker of England, has already led India in a solitary ODI. And when he leads the team out for the first Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla in Delhi Nov 22 his ambition to lead India in Tests will also be fulfilled. Incidentally, it will be the same venue at which he took all-10 against Pakistan in early 1999.
Kumble in Tests:
* Debut: vs. England at Manchester on August 9-14, 1990, with figures of 3 for 105 and 0/65 in the two innings
* Best bowling: 10/74 vs. in an innings against Pakistan at Delhi in February 1999. He is the second bowler to claim all 10 wickets in an innings. England’s Jim Laker was the first to accomplish the feat with 10/53 against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956.
* Only Australia’s Shane Warne (708) and Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan (702) have claimed more wickets than Kumble.
* Best batting: 110 not out vs. England at The Oval, London, 2007. It was his 118th Test and 151st innings. It’s the most number of Tests any player has taken to notch up his first Test century.
* At 36 years 297 days, Kumble is the oldest Indian Test player to post a maiden century.
* Captain in ODIs: Led India to a four-wicket win over England at Madras on 25.1.2002 in his only match as captain.
Test record:
Batting & Fielding
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 C
118 152 30 2212 110* 18.13 39.10 1 4 53
(Read as: m=matches, I=innings, no=not out, HS=highest score, ave=average, 100=centuries, 50=half-centuries, c=catches)
Bowling
B R W BB Ave. SR ER 5WI 10WM
36702 16262 566 10/74 28.73 64.8 2.65 33 8
(Read as: b=balls, r=runs conceded, w=wickets, BB=best bowling, ave=average, SR=strike rate, ER=economy rate, 5WI= 5 wickets/innings, 10WM= 10 wickets/match)
Home and Away record:
Tests Wkts. Ave.
Home 56 325 23.71
Away 62 241 35.50
Kumble’s milestones – 1 to 500
Wkt. Batsman Opponents Venue Season
1st Allan Lamb England Manchester 1990
100th Martin Crowe New Zealand Bangalare 1995-96
200th Pommie Mbangwa Zimbabwe Harare 1998-99
300th Matthew Hoggard England Bangalore 2001-02
400th Simon Katich Australia Bangalore 2004-05
500th Steve Harmison England Mohali 2005-06
Kumble’s top six performances in an innings:
Wickets Opponents Venue Season Result for India
10-74 Pakistan Delhi 1998-99 Won
8-141 Australia Sydney 2003-04 Drawn
7-48 Australia Madras 2004-05 Drawn
7-59 Sri Lanka Lucknow 1993-94 Won
7-63 Pakistan Calcutta 2004-05 Won
7-115 England Ahmedabad 2001-02 Drawn
Batsmen dismissed most often by Kumble:
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak.) – 8 times; Roshan Mahanama (SL), Adam Gilchrist (A),Hansie Cronje (S.Africa), Aravinda de Silva (SL), Ricky Ponting (A), Andrew Hudson (SA), Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Mohammad Yousuf – 7 times each
Mode of dismissals by Kumble:
Victims
Bowled 86
Caught by fielders 261
Caught by Wicketkeepers 29
Caught and Bowled 29
LBW 141
Stumped 20
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Total 566
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