Bigstar Players : Danish Kaneria : On the Spot

Hobbies: Listening to music on my iPod; I love driving and have five cars back in Karachi and my favourite is a Honda Oriel VTI. I love motorway driving in England.

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Favourite Movie(s): Hindi movies mostly, though I don’t have a special or favourite one. I enjoy all of them.

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Favourite Movie Star: Amitabh Bachchan.

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Favourite Music Act(s): Hindi music. I like Lata Mangeshkar and Udit Narayan mostly.

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Favourite Food: Chicken Biryani and barbeque. 

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Favourite Drink: Orange Juice.

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Favourite Holiday Destination: Switzerland. I haven’t been there but would love to go. I also like New Zealand. 

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Favourite Ground: National Stadium in Karachi, because it is home; and the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sydney Cricket Ground, as my name is on the honours board at both of them!

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Least Favourite Ground: Anywhere my team has lost and where I have bowled badly.

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Most Memorable Match: The Third Test against India in Bangalore in March 2005. We were desperate to win and draw the series 1-1 and we did just that. I took five wickets in the first innings and the last two in the second to give Pakistan victory.

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Match You Most Want to Forget: The First Test against West Indies (in May 2005 and the next Test after Bangalore) in Barbados when we lost by 276 runs. We played very badly and I didn’t enjoy it but I did bowl Brian Lara out, even if it was for 130. Another bad memory is Essex vs Lancashire at Old Trafford (in July 2005). I bowled 70 overs in their first innings and had figures of 0-208!

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Your Cricket Heroes: Brian Lara, Wasim Akram and Abdul Qadir. Abdul was my idol, but I haven’t worked with him.

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Greatest Influence: My Uncle, Cowas Mulla. He’s actually my father’s best friend and my Godfather. He helped me a lot.

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Toughest Opponent: Brian Lara. I really like to watch him bat and it was great to bowl to him in the West Indies. I learnt a lot bowling to him. I asked him if he would sign my shirt after the series and he wrote on it: ‘Best bowler’, which I thought was very generous of him.

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Best Friend in Cricket: I like everybody.

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Funniest Man in Cricket: Billy Bowden. Maybe I shouldn’t say that as he won’t give me any more lbw’s!

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Funniest Men in the World: Johnny Lever, Kardar Khan and Mr. Bean.

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Most Embarrassing Moment: That Lancashire match: 0-208 is pretty embarrassing.

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If You Weren’t a Cricketer…: I would be working in an office. Some kind of business but I don’t know what; maybe something to do with sport.

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