Happy Birthday Anil Kumble

 

I have a vivid recollection of watching an ODI from India’s first tour to South Africa in 1992. India were losing the game, as was often the case those days when they toured overseas, and I sat glum faced with a cousin as South Africa chased a target down.

“You know,” my cousin turned to me. “The one guy who seems to feel really bad every time a run is scored off him is Anil Kumble. Look at him, he is really trying.”