Kumble to bid adieu one-day cricket on return to India

Antigua, Mar 28 (UNI) Veteran leg-spinner Anil Kumble will formally announce his retirement from one-day cricket after the Indian team arrives home from the Caribbean tomorrow.

It is learnt Kumble has taken his colleagues into confidence before the team left Port of Spain.

Thirty-six year-old Kumble is India's leading wicket-taker in both forms of the game with 547 Test victims from 113 matches and 337 wickets in 271 one-dayers.

He had already said the current World Cup, his fourth appearance in the showpiece event, would be his last one-day assignment.

Kumble had not been an automatic selection in the shorter version of the game in recent times and he played in just one of India's three games -- against minnows Bermuda, taking three for 38.

Kumble is best known for taking all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in New Delhi in 1999, only the second bowler to achieve the feat after Englishman Jim Laker.

UNI