Kumble additionally talked about his startups, his journey within the company world and the way it formed his perspective. “While I was doing my engineering, I was part of Vijay Bank and played cricket for the bank. After engineering, I joined Titan as a consultant. For those four years, I was with them. Those years for me were going to the office and understanding how the corporate office functions. After 1996, I never had a job like every other cricketer and there were no contracts. It was like you play and you get paid for whatever you play. But when you get dropped, (there’s) nothing else. I wanted to take on a challenge. In 1999, after the 10-wicket haul…we started a company in sports technology that was into software and built the backend for a few cricketing websites that became cricketing apps now,” he elaborated.

In 2010, Kumble based Tenvic Sports with Vasanth Bharadwaj, a former Indian desk tennis participant, to advertise grassroots growth in different sports activities, moreover cricket, in order to extend competitors and in flip, develop champions in different sports activities.

In 2018, he began a sports-tech firm known as Spektacom that offered real-time knowledge for cricketers. “The journey has been slightly thinking ahead and thinking about what can make a difference in the sports ecosystem.”
He added that when folks take into consideration sports activities, they don’t suppose enterprise. “…but I certainly believe for it to be sustainable, you need to constantly keep challenging and bringing in certain innovations to make the game better and closer to the fans. I think business in sports is a great opportunity. You can see the current IPL broadcasting rights. Thanks to Neeraj Chopra, in athletics, we have been producing champions,” he added.