Recalling his early impressions of the former captain and leg-spinner Anil Kumble, Ashish Nehra calls him India’s biggest match-winner with the ball.
Former left-arm fast bowler Ashish Nehra recently named his pick for India’s greatest match-winner with the ball. He named his former teammate Anil Kumble apt for the name. With all thanks to his stunning exploits with the ball, Anil Kumble is regarded as the country’s greatest match-winner.
“First time I saw him was on television only when Anil Kumble was playing for India,” Ashish Nehra said on the Cricket Connected Show on Star Sports. He added saying, “He had those huge glasses, but as you keep on playing your face, mannerisms and style keep changing every 5-6 years. But I would definitely agree that with the ball, he was India’s biggest match-winner.”
Brett Lee, who played a game of cricket against Kumble, recalled the year when he first saw Kumble on the TV. In his India debut as a 19-year-old (1990), Lee thought of Kumble as a ‘university student’, but soon the image transformed into one of the biggest legends of the game.
Ashish Nehra made his debut in international cricket at a time when the Indian team was full of world-class players who went on to become some of the biggest legends in the game. The names already into the game included Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, and Harbhajan Singh when Ashish Nehra got his first breakthrough in the team.
