Kumble withdraws from IPL season 4 auction

Anil Kumble has withdrawn from this weekend’s IPL auction citing other business and commitments.For this withdrawn IPL loses one of the best performing IPL players. This Indian leg spinner retired from international cricket .this decision brings a curtain on his career as a player though, he said, he would remain involved in cricket administration. Kumble had a reserve price of US$400,000, the maximum possible, for the upcoming IPL auction.

In the IPL Bangalore made a forgettable starting under Rahul Dravid and in 2009 also inaugurated very poorly under Kevin Petersen. Anil Kumble took the helm of Bangalore midway and led the team to the final. Next year he captained Bangalore to reach up to semifinal. He was also one of the best performed bowlers in the two previous IPLs. In the first session he took 21 wickets at an economy of 5.86 in 2009 and 17 wickets with an economy of 6.42 in 2010.

Anil Kumble has a very bright career as a cricketer. He is the leading wicket taker of India taking 619 wickets in test and 337 in one-day cricket. Kumble was appointed chairman of the National Cricket Academy He was later elected the president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association. Though he will not play IPL, he will be a part of the RCB's senior leadership team over the next three years.

source: Espn Cricinfo

IPL 2009: Anil Kumble: the most wicket taker, 5 wickets in an innings

Anil Kumble has drawn the attentions of the cricket fan all over the world again. He has achieved another record in Twenty20 formatted cricket beside his one-day internationals and Test cricket history. He is play on the side of Bangalore Royal Challengers. In the 2^nd match of IPL 2009 season 2, BRC has its first match along with RR and BRC got wins in their first match.

In the previous article I informed wrong and mentioned that Anil Kumble has picked up 6 wickets in stead of 5 wickets of Rajasthan Royals. Wining toss Bangalore Royal Challengers elected to bat first and faced batting tragedy earlier and cashed only 133 runs from 20 over and lost wickets.

Although at the end of the first innings it seems that winning toss and batting first was not very good decision but when Rajasthan Royals batsmen admitted defeat to the Bangalore Royals Challengers’ bowlers after short breaks. Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble preformed his best bowling figure in the tournament and has taken 5 wickets just for 5 runs. He took YK Pathan, RA Jadeja, SK Warne, MM Patel and Kamran Khan’s wicket.

IPL 2009: 2nd match result and highlights, Anil Kumble takes 5 wickets

The second match of Indian Premier League season 2 was between Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal challengers was held in the same ground where the 1^st match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indian was commenced on, at Newlands Cape Town. MI has won the match and felt in heavy competition. In the 2^nd match Bangalore Royals Challenger won the toll and elected bat first.

From the first time Bangalore Royals Challenger felt huge batting downfall lost two wickets in the first over. It lost JD Ryder, RV Uthappa and LRPL Taylor, the three premier wickets just adding 17 runs. This sequence was continued after short breaks.

Mascarenhas picked up 3 wickets for 20 runs Shane Wane and MM Patel took 2 wickets each.

Rajasthan Royals repeated the same things as Bangalore Royal challengers did during the batting time. It lost earlier three wickets just for 14 runs and BRC packed them in 58 runs. Three batsmen scored same and highest runs and that was 11 runs. It is really unbelievable that the champions had to be booked in 58 runs.

Anil Kumble figured the best bowling and picket up 5 wickets in an innings just for 5 runs and P Kumar and JD Ryder picket 2 wickets each.

It is clear the Anil Kumble will be the star of the tournament and Man of the match. Anil Kumble is the second man who secured 6 wickets in an innings. In the last year Sohail Tanvir picked up 6 wickets for 14 runs. Now Kumble holds the best bowling record.

4 players have achieved the maximum six awards. And Man of the Match goes to Rahul Dravid for outstanding job in this innings because he holds the teams searing during the bad time of the team and scored 66 runs.

Sourav, Rahul, Laxman, Sachin and Anil should go to retirement

Once up on a time, in Indian cricket there was a golden time that has been passed when Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tecdulkar dominated the oppositions during the firs 15 overs. India was the top most team that will more runs during the restricted fielding time. By the time being it Sourv and Sachin is in aged and the in the last 10 matches they did not do well in ODI a Test.

Recently, there was news in Indian media that Sourav Ganguly has planned to take retirement for the international cricket when he has been kept his name from the next Home Test series alongside Australia. After getting some change in the selection board of Indian Cricket board, some of older players get opportunities to play the home Test series including Sourav. Beside, they all have got notice to go to retirement form the International cricket.

Cricket-mad India is fiercely debating whether it is time for their record-breaking batsmen Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Vangipurappu Laxman as well as spinner Anil Kumble, the test captain, all well into their 30s, to quit.

I think, India needs to take some change for future and should get opportunity for the young players.

Ten Spin Bowlers in the Word

There are many spin bowlers in the crick world. Many of the has taken rest from international cricket and some has let. Among them, Jim Laker, Shane Warn, Anil Kubmle, Muralidharan popular.

Anil Kumble is an Indian leg-spinner bowler and an Indian cricketer who is the highest wicket-taker in both One Day International and Test matches. He was born in Bangalor of India. He was appointed as test captain for Indian team on 8 November 2007. He was appointed in this post instead his state team mate Rahul Dravid, who resigned his own self from the post of captain in September 2007.
He made his debut in ODI cricket against Sri- Lanka at Sharja in the Australia Cup on 25 April 1990 and made test debut in the same year on India’s tour of England in the 2nd test.
Recently he is the third highest wicket-taker in the world in test cricket taking 599 wickets by playing 123 matches. He has taken 330 wickets in ODI cricket by playing 271 matches. Anil Kumble took retirement from ODI cricket after finishing the last World Cup cricket in 2007. It is a great achievement of Kumble that he is one of only two bowlers who has taken all 10 wickets in an innings in ever test cricket history. And other one is Jim Laker of England. He has been selected man of the series for 4 times in ODI cricket and 1 time for test cricket till now. And also he has been selected man of the match for 10 times in test cricket and 6 times for ODI cricket.
Best ODI Bowling: 6 wickets for 12runs, Best Test Bowling: 10 wickets 74 runs, Best ODI Batting: 26, Best Test Batting: Unbeaten 110.

Harbhajan Singh is an Indian cricketer and is an important off spin bowler in the cricket world. He made his ODI Debut against New Zealand in Sharjah and test debut against Australia at Bangalore in 1998. Habhajan Aingh is an attacking minded bowler and has good control the ball. He can maintain the line and length in bowling. Sometimes he has been charged for his bowling action. At first he was criticized after his ODI debut for his bowling action. Then he was out of team for some months. However, again he got call for Indian team mainly for the request of then Indian skipper Sourv Ganguly for Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
Harbhajan Singh established himself in newly in team India by taking 32 wickets with a hat trek and become the first Indian hat trekker in test cricket. However, after different injury and criticize he reclaimed his inconsistent position from 2004. In his cricket life, he selected man of the series for 2 times and man of the series for 5 times in test cricket. And in ODI cricket, he selected man of the match for 3 times. It is called a good performance. Now he is in 26 (+) years old.

Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972, in Kandy, Sri Lanka), nick name Murali is a Sri Lakan greatest off spinner. He is now highest wicket taker in test cricket by taking more than 723 wickets. In ODI cricket he has taken 455 wickets. He has made this record on December 3, 2007 overtaking the Australian spinner Shane Warne’s highest wicket taking record. Also, he is the only one cricketer in the world who took 1000 wickets in both ODI and test cricket. He is the highest wickets/match ratio (6.1) among the bowlers who have taken more 200 wickets.
Murali made test debut against Australia at Khettarama Stadium on 28 August 1992 when he was at the age of 20 years and made ODI debut against India at the Khettarama Stadium on 12 August, 1993.
Over all, his carrier was not without controversy, many times he has been charged with his bowling action by the authority. However, he became discharge from the claim by different tests. At first he was an off break bowler then changed it into fast topspin. At last ‘doosra’, a unique delivery which turns from leg to off. This unique action is a huge of his bowling action.
Murali has got a huge number of awards in his cricket life. He was selected man of the match in ODI for times and selected man of the series in test cricket for 11 times.
Best test bowling: Best test batting: 67, Best ODI bowling:, Best ODI batting: 99

Monty Panesar, full name Mudhsuden Singh Panesar ( born 25 April 1982 in Luton of London ) is an English cricketer. He is a left-arm spinner, plays with a classical bowling action in both ODI and test cricket for England. He is the first Indian hereditary Sikh who leads a nation other than India in test cricket.
He made his ODI debut against Australia at Melbourne on 12 January 2007 and test debut became on January 2006 in Nagpur of India. Monty Panesar is another player of England after Phil Tufnell who hauls 10 wickets in a test match. Panesar is a great cricketer for England team because in this short time his performance incredible from his entrance in international cricket till now. His age is now 25.
Best bowling in ODI: 3 for 25, Best bowling in test: 6 for 129, Best batting in ODI: 13, Best batting in test: 26

Mohammad Rafique is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is a slow-left-arm orthodox bowler and a regular face for Bangladesh team. He is one of only two Bangladeshi bowlers whose position in 25 top list of ICC ODI bowling ranking now.
Mohammad Rafique Rafique is a dependent wicket taker for Bangladesh in both ODI and test cricket. He is also a lower order hot hitter batsman of Bangladesh team. He is the only Bangladeshi players who have taken 100 ODI wickets and have scored 1000 runs.
He made his test debut against India at Dhaka, Bangladesh in2000, where he took 3 wickets. He is the highest test wicket taker of Bangladesh against England, scored a test century against Zimbabwe.
He was accused his suspect bowling action to the ICC, after it he was out of the team until 2002. Again he came back for the series against South Africa. Now he is the most senior player of Bangladesh team.

Daniel Vettori was born on 27 January 1979 in New Zealand. Now, he is the skipper of New Zealand cricket team and is a slow left-arm dependent bowler.
Daniel Vettori made his debut in test cricket in 1996-1997 when his was 18 at wellington on 6 February against England. And his ODI debut happened after a month of his test debut against Sri Lanka at Christchurch on 25 March, 1997.
Recently his ICC ODI bowling rank is 3. Vettori have scored 2 test centuries as well as many half centuries. He is also an all rounder cricketer. Vettori took 10 wickets in 3 times in a test innings against Sri Lanka, Australia and Bangladesh.
Best bowling in test: 12 for 149, Best batting in test: 137

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi is a Pakistani cricketer. He is on of the most popular cricketer in Pakistan and is known as Boom Boom Afridi for his aggressive batting. He is known as hard hitter batsman and a leg spin bowler in the cricket world. He performed the fastest ODI century by 37 balls in the cricket history. Also he performed four times fastest half century twice in 18 balls and twice in 20 balls.
He made his ODI debut against Kenya in Nairobi on 2 October 1996, test debut against Australia at Karachi on 22 October 1998. His ODI strike rat is 109.38 per 100 balls that is the highest stick rate in the cricket game history. And his test strike rate is very nice that 86.13. Afridi is such a cricketer who can change the game motive in any moment. He is a dependent match winner cricketer for Pakistan. There is no such scandal against Afridi. He has a number of world records.

Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria, nick name Danish is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a leg spinner and an orthodox player for Pakistan can easily process the ball as googly and flipper. He made his ODI debut against England at Faisalabad in 2000.
Although there is no mentionable performance in his carrier yet he ha some well performance. Like – he took 7 wickets for 77 runs against Bangladesh during the Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan in 2002 and also took 10 wickets against Sri Lanka at Karachi. Recently he performed well to win Pakistan’s against West Indies, England and India.
He is the second Hindu devotee after Anil Dalpat (they are cousin) to play test cricket for Pakistan.

Andrew Symonds is an Australian great cricketer who is West Indian and English heritage. He is an off spin bowler, also a most aggressive batsman of Australia. Moreover he is also an excellent fielder. Obliviously we can say him a great all-rounder.
He made his ODI debut in 1998 against Pakistan at Lahore. He would choose to play becoming of Australia than England, his birth place and West Indies. And he made his test debut against Australia in March 2004. In ODI match, his highest score is 156 and strike rate over 90 which are very excellent. In 2003 world cup final, when Australia at 86 for 4 then for his excellent guide Australia reached 310 for 8 where he scored 143*. Recently he scored his carrier highest test score 162* against India. And including this century totally he scored 2 century in his cricket life.
Best bowling in ODI: 3 Best batting in ODI: 162*, Best bowling in test: 5, Best batting in test: 156

Abdur Razzak is a Bangladeshi left-arm spin bowler. He is now an important cricketer for Bangladesh and his ICC bowling ranking position is 20. He made his debut in first class cricket at Bangladeshi domestic cricket on behalf of Khulna division in 2001-2002.
Performing well against Zimbabwe A, he was selected for Bangladesh A (training team for the full national squad). His best performance is 7 for 17.
First of all, Abdur Razzak’s debut became in Asia Cup One Day International against Hong Kong in 2004 for Bangladeshi national team. Now he is regular face in Bangladesh team although he was not regular from his starting time. And his test debut was happened in the 2nd test against Australia of the Australia tour of Bangladesh in April 2006.
Abdur Razzak was charged for his bowling action first on going Asia Cup in 2004 by then International Cricket Council match referee Roshan Mahanama, in 2004. However, lately he was discharge from this charge by a test immediately. Gradually he managed himself and become a regular fixture for national team.
Ranking: Abdur Razzak achieved at no. 8 position his carrier ever on the ICC rankings in ODI matches of current bowlers on 4 April 2007.
Best ODI Bowling: His best 5 for 33 against Zimbabwe, Bogra, 2006.
Best ODI Batting: His best 21 against India in Asia Cup, Colomboo, 2004.

Source: Wikipedia

Anil Kumble has been selected Captain of Indian Team for Australia Tour

India was in big problem to select a captain. Rahul Dravid resigned form Indian captain; the gap was created form then. But, at the time of Pakistan tour on India, Indian selection Board take a quick decision and select Anil Kumble the captain for the series and India has won the series 1-0 of three match series.

You could think that it is not a good victory. I think so. The most important work which Kumble did. At the age of 37, it seems that he has got the now life. The new performances during the home Test series he again has selected captain for Australia tour.

India vs Australia test series will begin later this month. Ahead of the series, Indian selectors have recently confirmed that Anil Kumble will lead India against Australia in the test series. 37 year old, Anil Kimble was made Team India’s new captain before the start of India vs Pakistan ongoing test series. With this excellent bowling performance, Anil Kumble led India to win the first test of the series. Now, India leads in the series 1-0 with a test yet to be held. However, Indian selectors have not declared the Indian side yet due to injury of some key pace bowlers of Indian team.

Now we have to wait what Anil Kumble can do. Will he able to show the same performances like home series that did along with Pakistan.

Anil Kumble is the Captain in the Home Test Series

Anil Kumble is one of the famous bowlers in the world. He has been kept a lot achievement in the basket of success in his cricket life. He is the third player in the world who achieves the highest wicket in the world after Warn and Muralidharan. But he is the second man who has taken 10 wickets in an innings. He is the man who touches the record of English bowler Jim Larker. The 36 years old man has been selected as a test captain for Indian team in the home series along with Pakistan. Drear readers, I want to remind you that Kumble took 10 wickets against Pakistan in 1999.

SouthAsiaBiz reported

However, many cricket fans do not even know who the third highest wicket taker in test cricket is. Yes, it is Anil Kumble, the man who has been doing his job silently for India. Kumble is unlucky that he is in an era of Inidan cricket when batmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid took away all the media spot.

Now it is an important issue in Indian cricket because the juniors are doing well but the evolvement of Kumble will take away the opportunity of the juniors Harbhajan Singh or Murali Kartik who did well for the both series home and aboard.