ACF 4: Anil Kumble vs batsmen at nervous 90s

Here we are again, bringing in a new untold and rare cricket fact, this time involving the legendary bowler Anil Kumble.

No doubt, Anil Kumble is one of the top 10 Asian bowlers to play the game. The former Indian Captain and Coach, always have a permanent place in the cricket records sheets for his famous 10-wickets haul in Delhi. 

We would suggest you check on our other Amazing Cricket Facts post, if you are looking for more untold, amazing cricket facts. This post is our 4th release in the series.

Cricket has always provided many heartbreaks in many forms of the game. One way of getting heartbroken is getting out in the nervous nineties. Sachin Tendulkar, who still rules the charts of most of the batting records, also had a negative side of getting out more times in the nineties.

Check Sachin’s top nineties out here. In ODI alone, the little master was out 18 times at 90s. Here’s a video of batsmen getting out at 99.

It’s human nature to get nervous at anxious times. Getting close to the century while batting is that kind of situation too. For a bowler, this tensed phase of a batsman at nervous 90s can be an excellent chance to get the batsman out. An intelligent bowler would be someone who makes use of this particular zone to get rid of the batsmen.

Bowlers who dismissed most “Batsmen at Nervous 90s”

Interestingly, two Indian bowlers top this chart in getting out the batsmen at nervous nineties in Test matches:

Anil Kumble and Kapil Dev

Anil Kumble leads this chart by picking up ten batsmen when their score was between 90 – 100. Kapil Dev has done it 9 times. Here’s the top 5:

BOWLER	TEAM	NUMBER OF TIMES
Anil Kumble	India	10
Kapil Dev	India	9
Malcolm Marshall	West Indies	6
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	6

15 other bowlers have done the same 5 times each.

In ODIs, the record for picking up most wickets of the batsmen at nervous nineties belongs to Wasim Akram. The Legendary left-handed pacer, who holds insane other records in his career, has bettered the batsmen at nervous 90s, 6 times in the shorter format.

Here’s the list of batsmen who got out by Anil Kumble at Nervous-90s:

• Jonty Rhodes (1992-93)
• Aravinda de Silva (1993)
• Craig McMillan (1998-99)
• Jacques Kallis (1999-2000)
• Marcus Trescothick (for 99, in 2001-02)
• Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq (in the same innings in 2005-06)
• Ashwell Prince (2006-07)
• Graeme Smith (2006-07)
• Andrew Strauss (2007)

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ACF 3: When Kapil Dev hit 4 Sixes in a row to avoid the follow-on!

ACF 4: Anil Kumble vs batsmen at nervous 90s

ACF 5: Mohammad Azharuddin holds the World Record of 3 Consecutive Centuries in First Three Tests

ACF 6: When Jasprit Bumrah scored 35 runs off Stuart Broad’s Over in a Test Match

ACF 7: Glenn McGrath Dismissed 104 Batsmen on a Duck in Tests

ACF 8: Glenn McGrath took Wickets on his Last Balls in Test and T20I

ACF 9: The Timeless Test – The Longest Cricket Match that lasted 12 Days

ACF 10: When Mohammad Sami Bowled the Longest Over in Cricket

ACF 11: When Bangladesh Lost 21 Consecutive Test Matches

ACF 12: When Kumar Sangakkara Scored Four Consecutive Centuries in ODI

ACF 13: When Don Bradman Scored 309 Runs in a Single Day of a Test Match

ACF 14: Graeme Smith Converted First 4 Test Centuries to 150+ Scores

ACF 15: When England Declared their Innings on 0/0!

ACF 16: Picking the First 50 ODI Wickets Within a Year of Debut

ACF-17: The Only 3 Players with a Double of 10000 and 500 Wickets in Cricket

ACF 18: When Pakistan Lost by an Innings After Scoring 500+ Runs

ACF 19: All-Rounders with More-than-one Centuries and Five-wicket Hauls at a Single Venue

ACF 20: India Scored 400-plus Totals in 6 Consecutive Test Innings

ACF 21: 4 Batters Who Scored 10000+ Test Runs in a Particular Batting Position

ACF 22: When Aravinda de Silva Scored 2 Unbeaten Centuries in a Test Match

ACF 23: When Vivian Richards became the fastest player to Score 2000 ODI Runs in Australia

ACF 24: Adam Gilchrist Scored All 16 ODI Centuries in Wins

ACF 25: Highest Partnerships by No. 10 and 11 Batters in Test Cricket

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