My next pick, Anil Kumble
Stats | Matches | Wickets | BBI | BBM | Bowling Ave | Econ |
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First Class | 244 | 1,136 | 10/74 | ? | 25.83 | 2.63 |
Test | 132 | 619 | 10/74 | 14/149 | 29.65 | 2.69 |
Bio from cric info:
No bowler in history won India more Test matches than Anil Kumble, and there probably hasn't been a harder trier either. Like the great tall wristspinners Bill O'Reilly and his own idol BS Chandrasekhar, Kumble traded the legspinner's proverbial yo-yo for a spear, as the ball hacked through the air rather than hanging in it and came off the pitch with a kick rather than a kink. 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, and more than one modern-day batsman remarked that there was no more difficult challenge in cricket than handling Kumble on a wearing surface.
Kumble's prodigious capacity to bear pain was proved in Antigua in 2002 when he bandaged his fractured jaw to deliver a stirring spell, and that to continuously learn 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.
My team so far:
- Bill Ponsford
- R
- I
- C
- Imran Khan
- L
- E
- B
- Anil Kumble
- C
- K
@Murtaza96 you have the next pick