I am ready for India tour: Kaneria

Published November 19, 2007

KARACHI, Nov 18: Eyeing a Test series win, Pakistan’s experienced leg-spinner Danish Kaneira on Sunday said he had done his homework to bowl on Indian pitches and was raring to go after their ‘great batsmen’.

”You look at the score sheet and the Indian team has some great batsmen but that is the challenge trying to get through them. If we bowl well with discipline as a team we can beat India in this series,” Kaneria told in an interview on Sunday.

”I am prepared and I have done some homework on the Indian batsmen. But in the end it is all about bowling with discipline and patience,” he said.

Kaneria joins the Pakistan Test squad in New Delhi on Monday for the three-match series after his side lost the five-match One-day series. He leaves with batsman Faisal Iqbal and pacer Mohammad Sami to join the team. ”The positive thing is that in India they play with the SG ball which gives spinners a good grip and their pitches also normally encourage some spin,” he said.

Kaneria, who has 208 wickets in 48 Tests, said the experience of the 2005 tour would also help him a lot because he learnt a lot in that series and became a more confident and better bowler. “The more you bowl against top batsmen the more you learn and become consistent.”

He also credited his success in Test cricket to former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq. “Inzamam understood my bowling and as a captain he was very good at handling me. He had a lot of confidence in my bowling and kept on pushing me to do a lot of bowling which I enjoyed,” said the bowler, who took 19 wickets on his last Test tour to India in 2005.—Agencies

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