Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria revealed that his ex-teammate Shahid Afridi has performed an enormous half in his omission from the ODI squad and in addition famous that there have been a number of spiritual obstacles headed by Afridi contained in the staff. Kaneria was banned for spot-fixing in 2012 by the ECB and he was banned for all times from all of the types of cricket submit that.
The leg spinner performed for Pakistan from 2000 to 2010 in 61 Exams and 18 ODIs. He’s the main wicket-taker for Pakistan in Exams among the many spinners with 261 wickets to his identify within the longer format. Kaneria confirmed gratitude to Shoaib Akhtar for bringing the mistreatment of the previous to mild throughout his taking part in days as he was a Hindu.
I used to be all the time degraded by Shahid Afridi: Danish Kaneria
Kaneria famous Akhtar was the primary to disclose the mistreatment in public and shared how the speedster had been saved quiet by authorities to not communicate on the matter. He reckoned that Afridi had all the time degraded him since they each performed for a similar spot within the aspect as spinners. He known as Afridi a “liar” after coming to know that Afridi had provoked the opposite Pakistan gamers towards him.
“Shoaib Akhtar was the primary particular person to speak about my downside in public. Hats off to him for saying it (how I used to be mistreated within the staff due to being a Hindu). Nevertheless, he was later pressured by a number of authorities. He then stopped speaking about it. However sure, it did occur to me. I used to be all the time degraded by Shahid Afridi. We used to play collectively for a similar division, he used to maintain me on the bench and didn’t let me play the one-day event,” Kaneria mentioned as quoted by news18.
Kaneria additionally felt that Afridi was jealous of him as he was performing effectively within the Check area and famous that he was grateful to play for the nation. He additionally requested the PCB to think about lifting his life ban as he felt that it has not allowed him to stay peacefully.
“He didn’t need me to be within the staff. He was a liar, and manipulator as a result of he’s a characterless particular person. Nevertheless, my focus was solely on cricket and I used to disregard all these techniques. Shahid Afridi was the one one who would go to different gamers and provoke them towards me. I used to be performing effectively and he was jealous of me. I’m proud that I performed for Pakistan. I used to be grateful,” he added.
