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March 30, 2021 County cricket / Features / Pakistan / South Africa

Danish Kaneria or Dane Vilas – who is most Danish?

4 minute readDanish Kaneria is a Pakistani cricketer who has been banned from the sport for life for spot-fixing. Dane Vilas is a South African cricketer who currently plays for Lancashire. Despite what their names suggest, neither player is from Denmark. So who is most Danish? Let’s measure the two men against

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Danish Kaneria outwits Mitchell Johnson

< 1 minute readOne thing we don’t like about modern cricket is the long batting order. We want to see the best batsmen against the best bowlers and then we want the lower order to just fold so that we can get on to the next innings. In truth, these long batting orders

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