Anil Kumble, the most successful bowler of Indian cricket has announced his retirement from International cricket today. With 619 test wickets from 132 test matches is nothing less than extra-ordinary endurance. That includes a perfect 10 wickets haul in an innings agaist Pakistan can never be forgotten. Anil is also the 3rd highest wickets taker in international cricket after Muralidharan and Shane Warne. His retirement marks the end of an 18 year old story which troubled batsmen all over the world with his bowling variations including leg spin, googly, flippers and leg breakers. A medium pacer turned spinner is known for his modest and dignified behaviour on and off the field, which is not so common in present cricket.
Dear Anil - your achievements will be remembered forever, thanks for all your contributions to Indian cricket. We all miss you on field for sure. All the best for the rest of your life.
Here is the good news for all cricket lovers. Yahoo! cricket beta portal launched a couple of weeks back in its beta version. This means a lot to all those who stay glued to their office computers for live cricket score updates. Probably cricinfo has been handling all the load from netizens all over the world till date. Now Yahoo! has geared up to share that load without having to compromise on the presentation.
New Beta cricket site looks very promising to me with appealing user interface and the ease of finding all the info in one tab. Whenever there is an international cricket match in progress, tabs at the top show up an additional highlighted ‘live’ tab. If there are multiple matches in progress, user gets to access each match on individual sub-tabs. Further, one has the options to find live commentary, full score card and past few overs progress etc., all in one screen without having to click on multiple tabs for information. You may find a handful of bugs here and there as it is still in beta. Other than that, I am sure you will be a fan of this site in the long run. Live your game!
Wow! what a match that was. When India was trailing by 2-0 after sydney test match, It is a great come back. I would say the team effort that paid off with a jubilant win. Every one in the team contributed to this match - great batting performance from tail enders like RP Singh and Anil Kumble, unbelievable bowling by batsman - Virendar Sehwag and an all round effort by Irfan Pathan. This win will be remembered for a long time to come, thanks to the self dug grave by aussies. After the first test match of this current series, it looked like Indians will be sent back home with 4-0 white wash by cricketing maestro Australians. But this win will boost Indians self confidence to pull their socks up to gear for the final match of the series at Adelaide.
I would like to congratulate Anil Kumble for his captaincy abilities and also for getting the honors of being the 3rd bowler to get 600 wickets in cricket test matches. Best wishes for him to get more wickets in future.
