India captain Anil Kumble gave his full backing to the senior batsmen ahead of the Australia Test series, terming their failure in Sri Lanka as a "one-off."
India's Test skipper Virat Kohli on Thursday welcomed new head coach Anil Kumble into the team saying he is looking forward towards work with the legendary leg-spinner.
Talented Karnataka opener Lokesh Rahul is happy that new chief coach Anil Kumble has decided to empower the national team members so that they can take their own decisions.
The leg-spinner became only the seventh Indian to win a Test on his captaincy debut.
India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Tuesday said the ace leg spinner's shoes will be hard to fill.
Sachin Tendulkar described Anil Kumble as a great player who will be an inspiration for generations to come. "It's truly an honour and privilege to have played in the same era. He will remain an inspiration for the next generations. To become another Anil Kumble one will have to work really, really hard," he said.
Newly appointed chief national coach Anil Kumble is planning to chalk up a roadmap for Indian cricket along with A team coach Rahul Dravid and limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It is learnt that Kumble wants to discuss about integration of U-19, A and senior teams wherein the supply line for the main team will be strengthened.
'Sundar is the front-runner behind Ashwin right now. He's done well in whatever limited opportunities he's got and I feel he will get his due first before going to anybody else.'
With Harbhajan Singh nursing a toe injury, Amit Mishra is likely to retain his place in the Indian team for the third Test against Australia, with Anil Kumble coming in for Harbhajan.
Test captain Anil Kumble on Tuesday said Indian cricket was undergoing a major transition with the advent of Twenty20 format and advised youngsters to focus on "sustained intensity" to create a niche for themselves.
Ravichandran Ashwin is the only bowler in the history of Test cricket to claim a five-wicket haul in both his debut and 100th Test match.
'A good spinner is one who does something off the wicket whether on a green top or a turning track,' said Prasanna.
"Any fair-minded cricket fan would have enjoyed Anil Kumble's 600th Test wicket even though it was Australia's potential saviour Andrew Symonds," Waugh wrote in his column for the 'Daily Telegraph'.
Former India cricketers Anil Kumble, Pravin Amre and Lalchand Rajput made their respective presentations as the Board of Control for Cricket in India's three-member cricket advisory committee held interviews to select a new coach at a city hotel in Kolkata on Monday.
'It was one of those games where things didn't go our way and we just need to move on'
Former India skipper Anil Kumble also honoured the late cricketer.
India's Test captain, Anil Kumble, said the war of words should be restricted to the cricket ground.
India's head coach Anil Kumble has admitted that James Anderson, who is available for selection for the second Test starting on Thursday in Visakhapatnam, would definitely make England strong if included in the playing XI.
Ranjan Madugalle has requested the rival captains to be present for a 'cool-off' session at Perth on Monday.
'Anil has been leading from the front right from the beginning and that should rub off on the team.'
Australian batsman Michael Clarke on Sunday said he spoke to Anil Kumble and sorted out the contentious issues raised by the Indian skipper after the acrimonious Sydney Test.
India captain Anil Kumble hopes his tourists and Australia can put their controversial Sydney Test behind them when the two rivals meet again in the third match of the series at Perth next week.
India captain Anil Kumble said he was proud of his players after they bounced back on Sunday to level the series against Sri Lanka with a convincing 170-run victory in the second Test in Galle.
India's captain said his batsmen should have batted session-wise and tried to hang around and build big scores.
Asked whether he could relate to any of the current generation cricketers, with whom, Anil Kumble instantly took Ashwin's name.
India captain Anil Kumble showered rich tributes on Muttiah Muralitharan saying the ace off-spinner can scale the 1000-wicket mark in Tests.
'Hunting in pairs' is an often-used maxim about fast bowlers, but Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have given a new spin to it, consistently troubling the opposition in more ways than one.
'The 100th Test match probably means 10 x 100 to my dad, it means a lot to my wife and my mom. My daughters are more excited than I am.'
Harbhajan Singh has come out in support of his longtime team mate Anil Kumble amid reports of rift between the current India coach and captain Virat Kohli.
Srikantadatta Narasimharaaja Wadiyar has been elected President, while Brijesh Patel was voted back as Secretary in the Karnataka State Cricket Association in the polls held during its Annual General Meeting in Bangalore on Sunday.
Former India captain Anil Kumble was on Monday appointed chief mentor of Mumbai Indians, ahead of the start of the sixth Indian Premier League season.
Rather than calling Kumble a tail-ender, it would be more appropriate to hail him a bowling all-rounder, one who is talented enough to frustrate the best of bowlers when armed with the willow.
Anil Kumble's Royal Challengers Bangalore will be the only IPL side in action in the Champions League Twenty20 on Sunday when it squares off against West Indian underdogs Guyana in the second of the two matches in Centurion.
'It's been really good. The whole journey has been good' 'Agreements and disagreements happen. I would not comment on things that I am not fully aware of. I would not speculate'
Former South African batsman Darryl Cullinan says the ace leg spinner could prove a big threat to the home side during the current series.
'When I was playing, the BCCI used to appoint the coach.' 'That was not the captain's prerogative, but now things have changed.'
The ace Indian leg spinner claimed 5 for 80 as Surrey bowled out Worcestershire for 304 in the County Championship.
The Indian leg spinner took 8 for 100 in the second innings to take Surrey to a seven-wicket victory against Northamptonshire.
The master spinner took his total to 533 as he moved ahead of Walsh's 519 wickets.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India may be adamant in its opposition to the Decision Review System, but ICC CEO Dave Richardson says the world body is hopeful of changing India's stance by first convincing ICC Cricket Committee chief Anil Kumble about the controversial innovation.
