{"id":25519,"date":"2020-05-16T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/kaneria-breaks-his-silence-says-afridi-was-always-against-him-and-ruined-his-odi-career\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T12:54:12","slug":"kaneria-breaks-his-silence-says-afridi-was-always-against-him-and-ruined-his-odi-career-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25519","title":{"rendered":"Kaneria breaks his silence, says Afridi was always against him and ruined his ODI career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kaneria was found guilty of spot-fixing alongside Mervyn Westfield while playing for English county<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 39-year-old said, beyond his religion, it was difficult for him to think about the reason behind Afridi\u2019s discriminatory behaviour.
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Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria on Saturday accused Shahid Afridi of treating him unfairly all through his career and blamed him for a rather short limited overs outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaneria, only the second Hindu to play for Pakistan after his maternal uncle Anil Dalpat, took 261 wickets in 61 Tests at an average of 34.79. However, he only played 18 ODIs between 2000 and 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to PTI from Karachi, the 39-year-old said, beyond his religion, it was difficult for him to think about the reason behind Afridi\u2019s discriminatory behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was always against me, when we were playing for the same department in domestic cricket or playing me in ODIs. If one person is always against you and you are in that situation, what other reason would think other than that (religion),\u201d said Kaneria when asked if he was a victim of religious discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaneria, who last year supported Shoaib Akhtar\u2019s claim that he was treated unfairly in the team because of his religion, said he could have played a lot more than 18 ODIs if it was not for Afridi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI could not play more ODIs because of him and he also treated me unfairly when we used to play for the same department (in domestic cricket), he was the captain. He used to keep me out of the side and often he would do the same in ODIs without any reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe used to support others but not me. Thanks to almighty, I still went on to play a lot for Pakistan and I could not be more proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaneria said he used to be a regular member of ODI squads but hardly got to play, blaming Afridi again for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was a leg spinner and so was he. That was another reason. He was a big star and playing for Pakistan anyway and to treat me like that, I could not understand why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey used to say two spinners can\u2019t play in the eleven. They used to say my fielding was an issue in limited overs cricket. You tell me who were the supremely fit leaders at that time? There were only one or two good fielders. Pakistan was never known for fielding anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen not playing international cricket, he used to come back and drop me from the departmental team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaneria, who was found guilty of spot-fixing alongside Mervyn Westfield while playing for English county Essex against Durham in 2009, has been pleading for PCB\u2019s help for a long time. He wants to come back into the PCB fold and serve the game again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI dont want to play the religion card. All I want is PCB\u2019s support. If they can allow Mohammad Aamir, Salman Butt back into the system, why not me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, I made a mistake but so did others. They can\u2019t use and throw me like a toilet paper. I have served Pakistan for a long time and they should support me after all these years\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaneria played most under the captaincy of Inzamam-ul-Haq. He said Inzaman and Younis Khan supported him the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI played under Moin Khan, Rashd Latif, Inzy bhai, Younish bhai. I played very little under Afridi. Inzy bhai and Younis bhai supported me a lot and it is a fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, Inzy bhai doesn\u2019t talk about me positively in public but I will always be thankful to him for his support. I flourished under him,\u201d Kaneria added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kaneria was found guilty of spot-fixing alongside Mervyn Westfield while playing for English county PTI The 39-year-old said, beyond his religion, it was difficult for him to think about the reason behind Afridi\u2019s discriminatory behaviour. Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria on Saturday accused Shahid Afridi of treating him unfairly all through his career and blamed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}