Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
A tall, wiry legspinner, and only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan (the first, his cousin Anil Dalpat, was briefly their wicketkeeper), Danish Kaneria mastered some vital skills at an early age. His stock ball drifts into the batsman and he possesses a well-disguised googly. His whirling approach is reminiscent of Abdul Qadir, and he looks set to pick up the baton from Mushtaq Ahmed as Pakistan's premier legspinner. Kaneria was hyped as a secret weapon when England toured Pakistan in 2000-01, and though his impact in the Test series was minimal, he has since made his mark, mostly against the lesser lights of Bangladesh, but also in a home Test against South Africa, when his five-for won Pakistan the match. Against Bangladesh, though, his figures are awesome: 34 wickets in five Tests at 16, with best figures of 12 for 94 in the opening game of the Asian Test Championship in August 2001. But it was during the India tour of 2005, where Kaneria was Pakistan's best bowler by some way, that Kaneria showed his true class. Against batsmen who routinely demolish legspinner Kaneria picked up 19 wickets from three Tests and helped Pakistan draw the series 1-1
Full name : Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria
Born : December 16, 1980, Karachi, Sind
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling Style : Legbreak
Test debut : Pakistan v England at Faisalabad - Nov 29-Dec 3, 2000
ODI debut : Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Sharjah - Oct 31, 2001
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
A tall, wiry legspinner, and only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan (the first, his cousin Anil Dalpat, was briefly their wicketkeeper), Danish Kaneria mastered some vital skills at an early age. His stock ball drifts into the batsman and he possesses a well-disguised googly. His whirling approach is reminiscent of Abdul Qadir, and he looks set to pick up the baton from Mushtaq Ahmed as Pakistan's premier legspinner. Kaneria was hyped as a secret weapon when England toured Pakistan in 2000-01, and though his impact in the Test series was minimal, he has since made his mark, mostly against the lesser lights of Bangladesh, but also in a home Test against South Africa, when his five-for won Pakistan the match. Against Bangladesh, though, his figures are awesome: 34 wickets in five Tests at 16, with best figures of 12 for 94 in the opening game of the Asian Test Championship in August 2001. But it was during the India tour of 2005, where Kaneria was Pakistan's best bowler by some way, that Kaneria showed his true class. Against batsmen who routinely demolish legspinner Kaneria picked up 19 wickets from three Tests and helped Pakistan draw the series 1-1
