‘They removed my name from the list…living example of sheer discrimination against me’: Danish Kaneria slams PCB

Former Pakistan bowler Danish Kaneria slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not putting his name on the list of the country’s leading wicket-tackers in Australia.

“Just look at the audacity of the Pakistan Cricket Board. I took 24 wickets in 5 matches in Australia but they removed my name from the list. The living example of sheer discrimination against me,” the former leg-spinner wrote on X(formerly known as Twitter). However, one of the netizens replying to the Tweet said the list is based on bowling averages.

According to the table released by PCB, left-arm seamer Wasim Akram has the lowest average for The Men in Green in Australia. On the other hand, Kaneria bagged 24 wickets, but those came at an average of 40.58.

This list is best ranked by bowling average.

Danish Kaneria took his 24 wickets at 40.58 in Australia.

That's why he isn't on the list. https://t.co/RdKiafnoYL

— Daniel Beswick (@DGBeswick1) December 24, 2023

Kaneria, though, is not on the list of lowest bowling averages Down Under; he is the fourth-highest wicket-tacker for Pakistan in the red-ball game. He scalped 261 wickets at an average of 34.79. Wasim Akram (414), Waqar Younis (373), and Imran Khan(362) are ahead of the spinner.

Meanwhile, the current bowling attack of Pakistan, which was picked for the first of the three-match Test series in Perth, looked toothless. Waqar Younis rued the lack of speed in the Pakistan pace battery, saying that there was no real pace after they lost the Test comprehensively.

“Another thing that I’m worried about is that always when we come to Australia, one thing that excites is the fast bowling and this time around I’m not seeing that. I’m seeing medium pacers or slow medium pacers, allrounders, there’s no real pace. People used to come and watch Pakistan pace bowlers really running in hard and bowling 150 clicks, and that’s what I’m not seeing there,” Younis said on ESPN’s Around The Wicket show.

“That’s my worry and issue because I have not seen it at the domestic level also. There are a few injured, I can understand, but in the past you would always see a battery of fast bowlers that they could always bring on, but unfortunately that is not there and I’m really worried about that,” he added.

Pakistan will next play the second Test against Australia starting on Boxing Day i.e. on December 26.

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