Danish Kaneria is using religious card to get fame, he has played 61 tests from Pakistan and is one of the highest spinner wicket taker. Ever since he is banned by ECB in 2012 for his role in match fixing , he is continuously saying that he is not recognized by PCB because of his religion. To me these are cheap tactics, though Afridi is also of same class.
Well.. I somewhat agree with this statement. When Danish Kaneria was in the cricket team, there was another non-Muslim in the playing XI (Yousuf Youhana, who later became Mohammad Yousuf). While Danish was free to follow his religion, Yousuf changed his religion and became a Muslim (a lot of people claim that he did so in order to gain a permanent slot in the playing XI). And another player (Shoaib Akhtar) used to dissociate himself from religious activity (his views might have changed now). So in the end, I don't see any clear bias in terms of religion.
Salam,
In Pakistan a lot of people are religious but I highly doubt that here cricket board has some issues with the players being of another religion because they are a big cricket board and if something like that happens they will be in big trouble. I really don't think that the players who have converted to Islam, really did not have anything to do about this with being a permanent player in the playing 11. they did it more because they just love religion.
Regards
Duke
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