Anil Kumble’s lone wicket – that of JP Duminy caught by KP Pietersen for three – in the first semi final between Bangalore and Mumbai at Mum-DYP on 21.04.10 – gave him his 50^th wicket in Twenty20 games.

He became the 48^th bowler to capture 50 plus wickets in Twenty20 games. The complete list reads thus – Yasir Arafat {90}. JA Morkel {90}, GR Napier {88}, Umar Gul {86}, DP Nannes {84}, T Hendersen {84}, AD Mascarenhas {80}, M Muralitharan {79}, Shahid Afridi {78}, Irfan Pathan {78}, AJ Hall {75}, RP Singh {74}, Azhar Mahmood {71}, CM Willouhby {70}, PP Ojha {69}, J Louw {68}, SL Malinga {67}, AC Thomas {66}, DL Vettori {63}, DW Steyn {63}, R McLaren {63}, Saeed Ajmal {62}, TJ Murtagh {62}, CK Langveldt {61}, ND Doshi {61}, A Mishra {61}, GP Swann {61}, NM Carter {61}, JJ van der Wath {61}, SJ Cook {60}, Harbhajan Singh {58}, JC Tredwell {58}, DJ Bravo {58}, Danish Kaneria {57}, SB Styris {57}, BAW Mendis {56}, ST Jayasuriya {56}, PP Chawla {55}, Zaheer Khan {55}, Abdul Razzaq {53}, SW Tait {52}, Naved-ul-Hasan {52}, IJ Harvey {52}, RJ Kirtley {51}, YA Abdulla {50}, Mohammad Asif {50}, CW Hendersen {50} and A Kumble {50}

He is the eighth Indian bowler to capture 50 plus wickets in Twenty20 games. Others are – Irfan Pathan {78}, RP Singh {74}, PP Ojha {69}, A Mishra {61}, Harbhajan Singh {58}, Zaheer Khan {55} and PP Chawla {55}.

Kumble’s 55 wickets have come from 48 matches. He has bowled 184 overs of which one is a non over. He has conceded 1242 runs for his 55 wickets which have come at an average of 24.84 runs per wicket. His best bowling figures were five wickets conceding five runs. He has captured five wickets in a match once and four wickets in a match once.

Kumble is one of the four bowlers who have captured five wickets conceding single digit runs in Twenty20 games. A Kumble of Bangalore {3.1-1-5-5 vs Jaipur at Cape Town on 18.04.08}, Umar Gul of Pakistan {3.0-0-6-5 vs New Zealand at The Oval on 13.06.09}, M Diwakar of Jharkhand {3.1-2-6-5 vs Tripura at Dhanbad on 20.10.09} and D Mohammad of Trinidad and Tobago {3.0-0-8-5 vs St Lucia at Coolidge on 02.02.08}

On the IPL front, at the end of the first Semi finals between Bangalore and Mumbai at Mum-DYP on 21.04.10, Kumble’s aggregate stood at 41. He is the seventh bowler to capture 40 plus wickets in IPL. Others are RP Singh {51}, PP Ojha {49}, IK Pathan {47}, SK Warne {44}, A Mishra {42} and PP Chawla {41}

Kumble’s 41 IPL wickets have come from 41 matches. He has bowled 157.2 overs of which one is a non over. He has conceded 1042 runs for his 41 wickets which have come at an average of 25.41 runs per wicket. His best bowling figures are five for five. He has captured five wickets once and four wickets once. He is the third bowler to capture five wickets once and four wickets once in IPL after L Balaji of Chennai and Sohail Tanvir of Jaipur