he made it to the indian squad as a bespectacled lanky leg break bowler who did everything but spin the ball batsmen who tried to negotiate him as the orthodox leggie got the surprise of their life as the ball simply zoomed in jumped and uprooted the stumps ten years down the line anil kumble minus the glasses still does not fancy himself as a great spinner of the ball but then there are only two men in the history of test cricket to have taken 10 wickets in an innings one of them is anil kumble not only that he is the only spin bowler to have taken 5 wickets in an innings against all test playing nations and in 1994 he took six wickets against the west indies for just 12 runs in an exclusive preview offered to cricketindiatimescom anil kumble talks about his cricket and personal life q there is still one ambition of yours that is unfulfilledak yes i have come close to that a lot of times i havent achieved a hat trick in test cricket i have done it in first class cricket playing for karnataka and i have been on the hat trick ball a lot of times in my career but it just hasnt happened q that extra bit of luck is perhaps missing ak yes i was twice on a hat trick in my delhi test against pakistan during that 10wicket haul but i dont think you can ask for more than 10 wickets in an innings you cant get a hat trick and 10 wickets i think that is asking for too much q but a hat trick is something that your mother is dreaming for you to do ak yeah whenever i call her before the match she says i should take a hat trick but i guess probably for her a hat trick is very easy it will come q lets talk about the phenomenal 10wkt haul against pakistan in february 1999 when wasim akram got out as your 10th victim were you relieved or too stunned to believe it ak i think i was just stunned if you look at the video i was totally dazed the first thing that came to my mind was that we had won the test match and then when all the teammates came close to me and congratulated i realized that i had picked all the 10 wickets in the innings q there was this game of superstition going on between you and