How Vijay Mallya bought Anil Kumble for RCB during IPL 2008 auctions, 'Nobody is touching him'

During the auction of IPL 2008, erstwhile Anil Kumble's sanction was announced for bidding, the Indian fugitive erstwhile businessman Mallya instantly stood and declared him his ‘Bangalore boy’, shared Anil Kumble successful an interrogation to a YouTube channel.

"Yeah I mean it was 1 of those things wherever I was the skipper of India successful the Test and for immoderate crushed I was not a portion of the icon database truthful I was a portion of the auction. Which I evidently didn't enactment successful but my sanction was successful the auction list. I retrieve idiosyncratic telling maine that arsenic soon arsenic my sanction came up it is not however it is similar present erstwhile my sanction came up Mr Vijay Mallya conscionable stood up and said he's my Bangalore boy. Nobody is touching him and that was the extremity of immoderate different bid coming. I deliberation that was the basal terms that I was bought astatine and determination was nary auction dynamics that you spot today. So that was what I was told determination were nary due to the fact that the proprietor conscionable stood up and said nary way, nary mode helium is going anyplace other different than Bangalore," Kumble said during a heart-to-heart chat with Ravichandran Ashwin connected the latter's YouTube channel, reported ANI.

Anil Kumble was not included successful the archetypal database of IPL icon players

THe legendary cricketer, Anil Kumble had to enactment successful the auction aft his sanction was absent from the archetypal database of icon players. Instead of Kumble, different large names were mentioned successful the database including Rahul Dravid. 

During the IPL auction, Anil Kumble was picked up by the RCB astatine his basal terms aft Mallya insisted astatine the auction that 'nobody' was to interaction him arsenic "he's my Bangalore boy". Later, Anil Kumble remained with the RCB for 3 years. Throughout his enactment with the team, Kumble made 42 appearances for the Bengaluru franchise, and picked up 45 wickets astatine an mean of 23.51 and an system of 6.58.

For the amended portion of his career, Kumble predominantly featured successful Test and ODI formats, arsenic T20Is came into the cricketing currency during the second stages of his career.

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Published: 25 Apr 2024, 10:36 AM IST