Anil Kumble: Top five cricketing moments

3rd Test - India v Australia: Day 5
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2. 6/12 vs West Indies, Kolkata, 1993

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This match established the 23-year old leg-spinner as one of the rising stars in a new-look Indian ODI outfit, as he wove a web on a wearing pitch against a completely befuddled West Indies squad.

Skipper Mohammad Azharuddin and Vinod Kambli had done their part with the bat – the latter scoring a half-century – in the face of typical hostile bowling from Anderson Cummins and the giant Curtly Ambrose.

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At one stage, it looked as if Brian Lara was going to single-handedly trump the home team, but Tendulkar castled him for 33, and thereafter, it was Kumble all the way.

He began by dismissing Roland Holder – the first player to be given out bowled by the third umpire- and then compounded the misery of the Calypsos by getting one to take the edge of Jimmy Adams’ blade, resulting in a diving catch by Azhar. Cummins was the next to go, bowled through the gate, and the Bangalorean then trapped Carl Hooper in front of the wicket.

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He returned to wipe off the tail, cleaning up Ambrose and Winston Benjamin to complete a six-wicket haul, conceding only four runs in just 26 deliveries. This speaks volumes of the amount of danger he possessed on a rank turner, but it also underlined India’s key strength: spin.

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