Kumble played important part in Indian victory at Kolkata Test by picking up seven wickets in the second innings and ten wickets in the match. Kumble has now appeared in 31 WON matches for India. His tally is the highest for a specialist bowler -well ahead of Kapil Dev (24), Harbhajan Singh (18),Bishan Singh Bedi (17) and Javagal Srinath (17).In fact only Sachin Tendulkar has made appearance in more WON matches for India (38) than Kumble among all players.
Kumble's performance in these 31 matches has been awesome. He has taken 219 wickets at an average of 18.09 with 16 five-fors and 4 ten-wicket match hauls. Harbhajan Singh is distant second with 102 wickets in 18 WON matches.
Kumble's performance in these 31 matches has been awesome. He has taken 219 wickets at an average of 18.09 with 16 five-fors and 4 ten-wicket match hauls. Harbhajan Singh is distant second with 102 wickets in 18 WON matches.
Bowler Tests Wkts Ave. 5WI 10WM SR W/T
A Kumble 31 219 18.09 16 4 45.24 7.06
Harbhajan Singh 18 102 20.04 9 2 49.44 5.67
BS Chandrasekhar 14 98 19.28 8 1 45.42 7.00
BS Bedi 17 97 17.66 6 - 54.03 5.71
Kapil Dev 24 90 18.30 3 1 45.28 3.75
EAS Prasanna 15 81 17.62 5 1 50.41 5.40
J Srinath 17 68 20.31 2 - 48.72 4.00
SLV Raju 12 58 21.22 4 1 58.43 4.83
