Danish Kaneria
Danish Kaneria (Credits: ESPNCricinfo)

Former Pakistan cricketers Faisal Iqbal and Danish Kaneria have continued their spat on Twitter. The two former cricketers have been involved in an ugly spat on the social media platform and things took turn for the worse on Wednesday as both of them took shots at each other.

It all started when Iqbal said that Danish Kaneria was scared of bowling to Brian Lara in a Test match where the left-hander took the attack to the former leg-spinner. Lara had hit the leg-spinner for three consecutive sixes in an over of that particular game.

“I still remember this match as a 12man Pakistan and was just watching the sixes going in the stands in his 200 double hundred… defiantly a dumb ass sledge Face with rolling eyes by Kaneria to the king @BrianLara and than later Kaneria himself got scared,” wrote Iqbal.

 

Unsurprisingly, Danish Kaneria hit back at his former teammate. The former leg-spinner said that Iqbal should focus on his own stats and also mention the fact that the he won many matches, writing:

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“Look who is talking about cricket. Please check you stats first. Smirking face Also mention other matches that I have won. By the way, @BrianLara was a legendary cricketer. I respect him a lot,” wrote Danish Kaneria.

Iqbal accused Danish Kaneria of playing the religion card despite being a match-fixer. He also accused his ex-teammate of lying about his stats, writing:

“Better than a FIXER and a LIAR stats..who sold his soul for year’s in GREED and now trying to gain a FAKE sympathy by playing Religion card 24/7!! Proudly wore this on my chest and proud of my all around stats☺️at least they are CLEAN!!”

Earlier, Inzamam-ul-Haq, who was leading Pakistan in the aforementioned Test match, had revealed how things transpired on the field. Inzamam revealed how he had asked Kaneria to tease Lara which eventually backfired.

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“Danish Kaneria bowled a googly, which he [Brain Lara] played back to the bowler while coming out of his crease. In that moment, Danish said ‘well played Brian’, which prompted Lara into saying ‘okay sir’. But the next three balls were all dispatched over the boundary.

“I was the captain of the side so I went over to Danish and told him to tease Lara a bit more. I felt that Lara was angry so we might make him throw away his wicket. I placed the fielders on the boundary line in anticipation of the big shots but he still managed to outfox us by dispatching Danish to all parts of the ground,” said Inzamam.

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