![]() ![]() A year later, almost to the day, he became the first to do so in one-dayers. In December 2001, on home turf in Bangalore, he became India's first spinner to take 300 Test wickets. In 1999 in Delhi he swallowed all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan. In a brilliant though often downplayed career, Kumble claimed virtually every Indian record. His ability to learn and refine his craft was highlighted in the mid-2000s when, after a decade of middling away performances, he influenced memorable wins in Headingley, Adelaide, Multan and Kingston, using an improved googly, bigger sidespin, and more variation in flight and on the crease. Kumble's fortitude was proved in Antigua in 2002, when he bandaged his fractured jaw to deliver a stirring spell. The method provided him stunning success, particularly on Indian soil, where his deliveries burst like packets of water upon the feeblest hint of a crack. ![]() Like the great tall wristspinners Bill O'Reilly and his own idol Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Kumble traded the legspinner's proverbial yo-yo for a spear: the ball hacked through the air rather than hanging in it, and came off the pitch with a kick rather than a kink. No bowler won India more Test matches than Anil Kumble, and there probably hasn't been a harder trier either. ![]()
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