**I like the way this guy bowl
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/cricket/newsid_1968000/1968005.stm
Danish Kaneria is in the early stages of what could be an extremely, perhaps even exceptionally, productive career.
In August 2001, then aged 21 and having played just three Test matches, he gave an interview to BBC Sport Online.
He declared he aimed to **“join the elite club of Abdul Qadir and Shane Warne.” **
At the time he had just collected a 12-wicket haul against Bangladesh.
His first two Tests had proved rather less spectacular, however.
He was remorselessly milked for easy runs by Michael Atherton and Graham Thorpe in Faisalabad and Karachi.
And the combined lack of penetration of Kaneria and Saqlain Mushtaq was one of the prime reasons why England were able to claim an unexpected 1-0 series win.
But after Kaneria’s bold claim in the aftermath of his performance in Multan, he began to show further signs of a burgeoning talent by collecting 13 further wickets in two Tests on Bangladesh soil.
At that point, he seemed to have guaranteed himself a place as the second spinner in the Pakistan side.
His leg-spin bowled with a high action neatly complemented the skiddier, quicker off-spin of Saqlain.
But neither he nor Saqlain found much response in the two Tests played in Sharjah against the West Indies.
However in the searing summer heat of Lahore, against a New Zealand side with a competent top order, it was Kaneria who put Saqlain in the shade in the second innings.
The leg-spinner came away with five for 110 in 32 overs- three more wickets than Saqlain.
Perhaps even more significantly, Saqlain bowled little more than half the number of overs that Kaneria produced.
Interestingly, Waqar Younis has often introduced Kaneria to the attack earlier than his more senior slow-bowling partner.
In the Dhaka Test in January for example, Saqlain ended up bowling rather short spells and was unable to take a wicket, while Kaneria ended up with nine wickets in the match.
Kaneria has played eight times for his country now.
And although much of his success has come against Test cricket’s weakest opposition, Bangladesh, his record compares extremely favourably against the early part of the careers of the other four leading.
Shane Warne, the finest leg-spinner in the history of the game, took 14 wickets in his first eight Tests, while Kaneria already has 38 in the same number.
**The only other highly-regarded leg-spinner in world cricket, Anil Kumble, did just as well as Kaneria in his first eight Tests, as it happens. **
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But it may serve as a salutary lesson to Kaneria that Kumble is not playing for his country at the moment.
What of Muttiah Muralitharan, the brilliant off-spinner who looks certain to become the game’s most prolific wicket-taker in due course?
**He took 31 wickets in his first eight Tests, seven fewer than Kumble and Kaneria, while Saqlain had 33. **
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Where Kaneria outshines all the others, however, is in the realm of five-wicket hauls.
**He already has four in his first eight Tests, with none of the others having managed more than two. **
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Messrs Warne, Kumble, Muralitharan and Saqlain did not, however, have the luxury of bowling at Bangladesh so early in their careers.