Kumble a wonderful human being: Warne

Posted on Nov 24, 2008 at 21:27 Comment 0 CommentsEmail Print


London: Former Australian spinner Shane Warne hailed his contemporary Anil Kumble as a wonderful human being and feels the leg-spinner's career achievements will open for him plethora of opportunities in his post-retirement period.

"I spoke to him (Kumble) the other day, actually. He's a very smart man, engineer by trade, and I'm sure, considering everything he's achieved, there'll be plenty of doors open to him in India and internationally. I sense he's weighing up his options. He's a wonderful human being," Warne said in his interview to Observer.

Warne who had quite a few a memorable scalps in his career, rates his famous dismissal of Mike Gatting highly. His ball pitched way outside the leg stump turned almost ninety degrees round the batsman's legs to hit the stumps. heralding the arrival of the genius. The dismissal left Gatting with a blanched expression.

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