Danish Kaneria
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Danish Kaneria Pakistan (PAK) | ||
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| Batsman>Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Types of bowlers in cricket>Bowling type | Legbreak | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 36 | 15 |
| '''Runs scored | 126 | 6 |
| Batting average | 5.25 | 3.00 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- |
| Top score | 15 | 3* |
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Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria (born December 16, 1980), popularly known as Danish Kaneria is a Pakistani cricketer (leg spin bowler). He was born in Karachi. He made his international debut in 2000 against England at Faisalabad. Kaneria is very much in the tradition of Pakistan leg spin bowlers and possesses the variety of a fine googly and the flipper. Good control over length and willingness to bowl long spells is what marks him out as a bowler to watch out for. In January 2002, he took 7 wickets for 77 runs in the Test match against Bangladesh in Bangladesh, which are his career best figures so far in Test cricket. Earlier, in the same season, he had taken 6 wickets in an innings twice against Bangladesh during Bangladesh's tour of Pakistan. In October 2004, he took 10 wickets against Sri Lanka at Karachi, with a second-innings haul of 7/109, setting up Pakistan's 6-wicket win. More recently he has played an important role in Pakistan's Test wins over West Indies, England and India. In one-day international cricket, he has been economical so far with an economy rate under 4.5 runs per over. His best bowling in ODIs came against New Zealand in Sri Lanka in 2003. He also had a good series against Zimbabwe in Sharjah just before that. He also impressed in English county cricket taking 32 wickets in seven championship matches for Essex in 2005. He is a classically incompetent batsman, as a Test average of 5 indicates. It is interesting to note that in the same stage in their careers (28 Tests played) Kaneria has taken 132 wickets, more than Shane Warne (125) and Muttiah Muralitharan (107). Success in the one day arena has been more elusive, Pakistan usually opting to play the two spinning all-rounders Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik instead. Despite representing the Muslim-majority Country of Pakistan, Kaneria is a devout Hindu. He is only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan (the first, his uncle Anil Dalpat, was briefly their wicketkeeper), though Christians have also represented Pakistan.
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