A bespectacled Anil Kumble picks up 6 for 53 , five of them clean bowled, in his fourth Test against South Africa in Johannesburg in 1992


Kumble with Rajesh Chauhan and Venkatapathy Raju - the trio who ripped England apart in the 1992-93 home series. Kumble bagged 21 wickets in three Tests


Kumble's 15 wickets in the 1996 World Cup were the most in the tournament


Kumble's team-mates mob him after he became only the second bowler in history to take all ten wickets in an innings


Kapil Dev and Kumble meet the press while visiting LK Advani, the then Indian home minister, who congratulated Kumble after he entered the history books for capturing all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in Delhi in 1999


Kumble enjoyed himself in 1999, taking 34 ODI wickets


Kumble appeals successfully for the wicket Matthew Hoggard, his 300th in Tests


Kumble is mobbed by his team-mates after he took his 300th Test wicket


Kumble with a trophy topped by the ball he used to capture his 300th Test wicket


Often derided for being ineffective in away Tests, Kumble takes 7 for 159 in the third Test against England at Headingley in August 2002


His seven-wicket haul at Headingley helps India win by an innings and 46 runs and level the series


Marlon Samuels became Kumble's 300th wicket in one-day internationals in November


Kumble plays the second Test in Adelaide against Australia in 2004 after Harbhajan Singh is injured. Kumble makes a strong comeback, picking up five wickets in the first innings as India take a 1-0 lead in the series


He caps off one of his best series performances, taking 24 wickets over three Tests as India draw the series in Australia


Kumble bags his 400th Test wicket - Simon Katich - in home town Bangalore


Kumble celebrates his 434th Test wicket, equalling Kapil Dev's record, against South Africa in Kolkata in December 2004


He gets No. 435, claiming Mohammad Rafique's wicket in Dhaka in December 2004


In his 99th Test , Kumble's ten-wicket haul takes India to victory against Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi


Thumbs up! Kumble celebrates his 500th Test wicket. He was the fifth bowler, and the second-fastest to reach the milestone


Kumble took 6 for 78 to bowl India to a historic victory over West Indies in Jamaica in July 2006. The win helps India to their first Test series triumph in the Caribbean in 35 years


Not only did Kumble score a memorable maiden Test century at The Oval in August 2007, he also moved into third place in the leading Test wicket-takers list, surpassing Glenn McGrath's tally of 563
More than 17 years after his debut, he led India for the first time in a Test, against Pakistan in Delhi. He marked the occasion with a seven-wicket match haul to guide India to a win


Kumble sliced through the Pakistan batting in the third Test in Bangalore in December 2007, taking five wickets before bad light thwarted his chances of turning in yet another match-winning performance


Playing his first away Test series as captain, Kumble's five-for on the first day of the Boxing Day Test against Australia gave the champions a scare


Kumble reached the milestone of 600 Test wickets in the third Test in Perth, getting rid of Andrew Symonds


Kumble leads the victory lap after India notched up a famous away win in Perth, which he described as his proudest moment


In Adelaide, Kumble fell 13 short of what would have been his second century, but by then Australia had been kept in the field more than five sessions


A draw in Adelaide meant Australia won the series 2-1. Kumble was India's leading wicket-taker with 20 in the four Tests.


Life got tough for Kumble after the Australia series, as India drew 1-1 at home against South Africa


Kumble's bowling dipped further in Sri Lanka, where the hosts won 2-1


Kumble's rough patch continued in the home series against Australia. A shoulder injury and a wicketless performance in his home ground increased the pressure on him to retire


Kumble had his final hurrah in Delhi, his favourite venue. On the final afternoon, Kumble called it quits


His team-mates lined up to give him an emotional farewell