Anil Kumble Quotes

Anil Kumble

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 17, 1970

If I am trying to set up someone then I might go up to the keeper and say that I might bowl down the leg side. That's where you feel that if the 'keeper has a longer stint, he will read you better.

Anil Kumble

I've played my cricket very sincerely and honestly, that's the approach my team takes, and we expect that from Australia as well.

Anil Kumble

I think people believe that Bengaluru as a city will be more aware because of its cosmopolitan nature. However, I don't think that is necessarily true. Not many people today are even aware that they may have diabetes.

Anil Kumble

The coach's role is in the background; it's the players who come first. I am ready to take this role.

Anil Kumble

No matter where I end up in terms of wickets or the number of matches that I play, I think people will always remember me taking 10 wickets. So it is something that is always going to be special for me and for Indian cricket.

Anil Kumble

It is challenging at times, especially while I am travelling, but my training gear and sports shoes are among the first things that go into my suitcase so that I can get in a good work-out session wherever I am.

Anil Kumble

All these years I have spent bowling have helped me understand the game better.

Anil Kumble

Having been with the Indian team for such a long time and having had various experiences of not just conditions, but outside the cricket field, when you're a coach, you're not just coach on the field but also off it. You're trying to build personalities, trying to build leaders.

Anil Kumble

I don't think expectations will change as a player or as a captain. We have discussions and people who have played the game for long definitely express their views in a team meeting and I don't see that changing much. But the expectations would be to ensure that we are consistent.

Anil Kumble

I became captain after playing 17 years for India so probably I became captain by default because nobody else wanted it.

Anil Kumble

There were many batsmen who were very difficult to bowl at. Brian Lara was probably at the top.

Anil Kumble

You need the other team to be feeling the heat when they walk on to face you and that only comes from their being wary straight off of your dominance on the field of play.

Anil Kumble

Everyone in India wants the team to beat Pakistan, just as everyone in Pakistan wants their team to succeed. It's one match where the result matters, not really how you play.

Anil Kumble

There is a vast difference between playing Pakistan at home and away. I clearly recall, going into the quarter-finals at the Chinnaswamy stadium in 1996, that the pressure eased a bit when I stepped into a stadium where I had practically grown up as a cricketer.

Anil Kumble

It is a cliche to say that you need to take 20 wickets to win a Test and it is the bowlers who get you the 20 wickets.

Anil Kumble

I feel the only way you feel the pressure is when you think it is an important match or series. If you feel that every time you go out into the middle the match is important then pressure ceases to exit.

Anil Kumble

What we tend to forget in a skill-based game, is that if you start paying too much attention to mind games, you'll get into all kinds of avoidable issues. It's not easy to ignore them, but you have to try.

Anil Kumble

I think each one has his own style. I think, with me, I have always commanded the respect of my captains and I have always set my own field.

Anil Kumble

At the end of the day, the bowlers have to get 20 wickets to win a Test match. I'm sure they do have a little bit of brains to get those wickets.

Anil Kumble

But yes, I'm going to miss being a part of the team, sharing a dressing room, playing a test match, all those kinds of things.

Anil Kumble