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Tuesday, Jan 11, 2005

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Kumble's lucky escape

SYDNEY, JAN. 10. India's highest Test wicket-taker Anil Kumble considers himself lucky as the tsunami hit a seaside village in Chennai on December 26, barely 10 minutes after he and his family had left the cottage.

Kumble, who was here to take part in the tsunami charity match, revealed to the Sydney Morning Herald that it was probably a creek that saved the cottage.

``Just 10 minutes... I was totally ignorant. I was having breakfast with my family and we just walked out of the cottage 10 minutes before the tsunami hit the coast. We have to consider ourselves lucky. Not much damage happened in that particular resort but you can never say, can you?''

Recalling the incident, the leg-spinner said, "We saw the villagers packing their bags and leaving home and the water level rising, we could literally touch the water. There was a creek attached to the resort, probably that took the brunt of the tidal wave and that's how we were probably saved.''— UNI

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