RaviSez

I've wanted for so long to write a post about Kumble and kept putting it off. Then I remembered reading this post a while ago, by one of my favourite bloggers Jai and I couldn't have said it better. He wrote,

Eight other bowlers have 400+ Test wickets. Their names are: Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, Courtney Walsh, Wasim Akram, Kapil Dev, Richard Hadlee, Curtly Ambrose, Glenn McGrath. Of these, a black mark has often been put against Muralitharan’s name -- but that’s because of the perceived illegitimacy of his bowling action, not on the grounds of talent/ability/achievement. The rest? Read the list again.

The point of that post was how under appreciated Kumble was inspite of all his achievments. That was when he went past 400. Like a champion marathon runner overtaking the ones in front of him, he went past Akram, Hadlee, Kapil Dev, Ambrose, and now, Walsh. So apart from the contemporeries McGrath, Murali and Warne, there is no one ahead of him. Anybody notice a difference recently?