IPL 2026 is starting from March 28 and before the start of this tournament, we are telling you some such figures or facts which are really shocking. One such fact is about Anil Kumble which is very interesting. Anil Kumble is the only player in IPL history who has won Player of the Match despite losing the IPL final. Anil Kumble was the captain of RCB in 2009 and his team faced Deccan Chargers in the title battle. In this match, RCB lost by only 6 runs but Anil Kumble was awarded the Player of the Match because he took 4 wickets for 16 runs in 4 overs.
How did Anil Kumble’s team lose the IPL final?
Anil Kumble’s team had lost the IPL final by just 6 runs. Batting first, Deccan Chargers scored only 143 runs in 20 overs. In this match, Herschelle Gibbs played an unbeaten inning of 53 runs. Symonds also scored 33 runs in 21 balls. Kumble dismissed Gilchrist on 0 in this match. He also took the wickets of Symonds, Rohit Sharma and Venugopal Rao. However, RCB team could not even achieve the target of 144 runs. Even batsmen like Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Ross Taylor, Mark Boucher, Virat Kohli could not lead the team to victory. For Deccan Chargers, Pragyan Ojha took 3 wickets and Symonds took 2 wickets. Harmeet Singh also took 2 wickets.
Kumble has an amazing record in ODI World Cup
Anil Kumble never won the IPL as a player and he could not even win the World Cup as a player. Although Kumble had good performance in both IPL and World Cup. Anil Kumble took 45 wickets in IPL and his economy rate is only 6.5 runs per over. In the World Cup, this player has taken 31 wickets in 18 matches. His economy rate was only 4 runs per over.