shahid afridi danish kaneria

shahid afridi danish kaneria

“If Shahid Afridi can break TV because his daughter was performing puja, imagine how would he have treated me” Danish Kaneria.

Kaneria, who holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by a spinner in Pakistan’s cricket history, had accused Afridi and other players of pressuring him to convert to Islam.

Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria has once again criticized his former teammate Shahid Afridi for the discrimination he experienced during his playing days.

shahid afridi & danish kaneria controversy

Kaneria took to Twitter to share a video of Afridi where he gleefully mentioned breaking a TV after seeing his daughter do puja. Expressing his dismay, Kaneria said that if Afridi can do this to his innocent daughter, “how would he have treated me”.

Kaneria, who holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by a spinner in Pakistan’s cricket history, had accused Afridi and other players of pressuring him to convert to Islam. He credited Inzamam-ul-Haq as the only captain who supported him, while other players caused him significant trouble.

“I was doing well in my career and was playing county cricket too. Inzamam-ul-Haq supported me a lot and was the only captain who did so. Alongside him, Shoaib Akhtar. Shahid Afridi and many other Pakistan players troubled me a lot and didn’t eat with me. They used to talk about conversion, but my religion is everything to me. Shahid Afridi was the main person telling me to convert and did a lot of times. Inzamam-ul-Haq never used to talk that way,” Kaneria said in an interview recently.

“PCB didn’t support me because I was Hindu and I would break all the records. They couldn’t drop me based on my performance. They knew I could break all the records and Pakistan has never had a Hindu rising through the ranks. India has given chances to everyone. My father also died at that time, so I was very upset,” Kaneria added.