1. Danish Kaneria was the second Hindu, after his cousin Anil Dalpat, and the seventh non-Muslim overall to represent Pakistan in international cricket.
58 Facts About Danish Kaneria
1. 2.
Danish Kaneria subsequently filed an appeal against the ban, but this was rejected in July 2013.
3.
Danish Kaneria represented the team in 18 ODIs taking 15 wickets with an average of over 45.
4.
Danish Kaneria took 15 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket, and achieved six and seven wickets in an innings on three and four occasions respectively.
5.
Danish Kaneria took ten wickets or more in a match on two occasions, st Bangladesh and Sri Lanka each.
6.
Danish Kaneria played 206 first-class matches, 167 List A and 65 Twenty20 matches during his career.
7.
Danish Kaneria played in English county cricket during 2004 and 2010 representing Essex County Cricket Club.
8.
In October 2018, Danish Kaneria admitted to having met with a match fixer named Anu Bhatt but Danish Kaneria did not know he was meeting with a fixer.
9.
Danish Kaneria mentioned that a lot of his teammates knew the alleged fixer.
10.
Danish Kaneria's ancestors migrated from Surat and settled in Karachi over a century ago.
11.
Danish Kaneria was educated at the St Patrick's High School, Karachi.
12.
Danish Kaneria represented National Shipping Corporation, Karachi Whites, Pakistan Reserves, Habib Bank Limited cricket team, Karachi, Essex, Karachi Blues, Karachi Zebras, Karachi Harbour, Sindh cricket team, Baluchistan Bears, Karachi Dolphins and Pakistan A cricket team at domestic level.
13.
Danish Kaneria conceded 86 runs and took two wickets in the match.
14.
Danish Kaneria took ten or more wickets in a match on 12 occasions.
15.
Danish Kaneria played his last match of that format against the Punjab cricket team at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore while playing for Sindh in February 2012.
16.
Danish Kaneria conceded only 16 runs in 10 overs without taking a wicket.
17.
Danish Kaneria played 167 LA matches during his career taking 262 wickets at the average of 22.70.
18.
Danish Kaneria took eight five-wicket hauls and nine four-wicket hauls in the format.
19.
Danish Kaneria scored 379 runs in LA cricket at the average of 9.24 in including his solitary half-century.
20.
Danish Kaneria lastly represented HBL in an LA against Pakistan International Airlines cricket team at the Gaddafi Stadium.
21.
Danish Kaneria played 65 T20 matches between 2005 and 2012 and took 87 wickets at the average of 18.78.
22.
Danish Kaneria took two four-wicket hauls in T20s, and his best bowling performance in the format was four wickets for 22 runs.
23.
Danish Kaneria scored 104 runs in T20s, and his final match came against the Peshawar Panthers playing for Karachi Zebras.
24.
Danish Kaneria made his international debut as a leg-spinner in November 2000 at the age of 19, playing in a Test match against England at Faisalabad.
25.
Danish Kaneria took 12 wickets for 94 runs, Pakistan won the match, and his performance earned him the man of the match award.
26.
Danish Kaneria bowled 28.3 overs continuously from the University End providing "the priceless asset of control" to his team and the South African batsmen were unable to "read him with certainty".
27.
Danish Kaneria took ten wickets in the mach conceding 190 runs.
28.
Danish Kaneria bowled 60 overs in that innings which caused his finger bleeding.
29.
Danish Kaneria's performance won him the man of the match award.
30.
In January 2005, Danish Kaneria took eight wickets in a math against Australia conceding 204 runs including seven wickets for 188 runs in the first Australian innings.
31.
Danish Kaneria was initially nominated for the ICC Test Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council in 2005 for his performance during the previous year.
32.
Danish Kaneria was once described by the BBC as a "match-winner with his leg-breaks".
33.
In 2006 and 2007, Danish Kaneria played 20 Test matches for Pakistan taking 77 wickets including a five-wicket haul against West Indies at Multan in November 2006.
34.
Danish Kaneria played his last Test match against England at the Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
35.
Danish Kaneria took 15 five-wicket hauls and four four-wicket hauls.
36.
Danish Kaneria took seven and six wickets in an innings on four and three occasions respectively.
37.
Danish Kaneria achieved ten wickets in a Test match two time.
38.
Danish Kaneria scored 360 runs at the average of over seven runs whereas his highest in an innings remained 29 runs.
39.
Danish Kaneria holds the record for most wickets by any Pakistani spin bowler, and the fourth highest wicket taker of Pakistan in Test cricket, only behind Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Imran Khan.
40.
Danish Kaneria made his ODI debut in October 2001 against Zimbabwe at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium; he conceded 43 runs in seven overs without taking a wicket.
41.
Danish Kaneria played his next match 18 months later against the same team at the same ground.
42.
Danish Kaneria bowled nine overs and took two wickets for 38 runs in that match.
43.
Danish Kaneria played eight matches in 2003 taking eight wickets; he appeared in one ODI in 2004.
44.
Danish Kaneria played five matches in 2005 taking only three wickets while in 2006 he played a match against Scotland.
45.
Danish Kaneria represented Pakistan in two matches of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, against the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
46.
Danish Kaneria took one wicket for 45 runs in nine overs against the West Indies, and two wickets for 48 runs in four overs.
47.
Danish Kaneria played 18 ODIs for Pakistan and took 15 wickets in the format.
48.
Danish Kaneria played English County Championship between 2004 and 2010 representing Essex.
49.
Danish Kaneria impressed in county cricket, taking 32 wickets in seven championship matches for Essex in 2005.
50.
Danish Kaneria played for Essex again in 2008, although he missed the start of the campaign due to his wife giving birth to their second child.
51.
Danish Kaneria suffered a broken finger in Essex's LV County Championship Division Two match against Worcestershire County Cricket Club at Colchester on 21 August 2008.
52.
Danish Kaneria was selected for the two-match Test series against South Africa.
53.
Danish Kaneria then played in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for HBL, taking 18 wickets in two games.
54.
On 17 February 2012, during Mervyn Westfield's trial on spot fixing charges, Danish Kaneria was named in court as the man who approached Westfield with the idea.
55.
Danish Kaneria appealed against the lifetime ban on him by the ECB for his involvement in a spot-fixing scandal.
56.
In October 2018, after years of denying his guilt, Danish Kaneria admitted to his involvement in the 2009 spot-fixing scandal.
57.
Danish Kaneria is married to Dharmita Kaneria and has two children.
58.
Danish Kaneria is the cousin of former Pakistani wicket-keeper Anil Dalpat.