Pakistani Cricket Player: Danish Kaneria

Danish Kaneria Biography

Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria (born December 16, 1980, Karachi), 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.

He has taken over 100 test wickets and over 300 first class wickets. 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 runs against Bangladesh during Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan. More recently, 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.

Besides Bangladeshi batsmen, he has also dismissed several great batsmen in test matches such as Stephen Fleming, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Adam Gilchrist among others.

In ODI 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 is a classically incompetent batsman, as a test average of 5 will indicate.

Despite representing the Muslim-majority state of Pakistan, Kaneria is a devout Hindu.