Inzamam-ul-Haq breaks silence on Danish Kaneria & Shoaib Akhtar's discrimination claims

Days after Shoaib Akhtar's big revelation about Pakistan Cricket Team, in which he stated that former spinner Danish Kaneria was mistreated by team for being Hindu, former Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq has finally broken his silence on matter. Inzamam, who was one of players who skippered side during playing days of Kaneria and Akhtar, refused to accept that re was any discrimination in team. 

'Pakistanis have big hearts'

Speaking to a Pakistani journalist, Inzamam-ul-Haq said that captain that Kaneria played most under was himself and that he never felt re was any such thing in our team. "I never ticed even a single example of any such thing in our team," Inzamam said. Earlier, Danish Kaneria had stated that skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq had always supported him and put onus of naming players who practiced discrimination on former pacer Shoaib Akhtar. Meanwhile, Shoaib Akhtar had stated that 'captain' would raise eyebrows about Kaneria eating with team which puts entire matter in a pool of speculation as one has been named yet. 

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Furrmore, Inzamam-ul-Haq also said that he is t ready to accept that Pakistan players have such small hearts and would do a thing like this. "I think Pakistanis have big hearts and we can accept everyone in our hearts," said former skipper. Haq also reminisced about tours to Sharjah where Indian and Pakistani players would share same hotel and he would often see players from both teams sitting in each or's rooms, joking around and eating toger. 

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only Pakistani batsman to score 20,000 runs in international cricket, Inzamam-ul-Haq also cited an example from his captaincy days when he picked Danish Kaneria over Mushtaq Ahmed whom he stated was his childhood friend. "I gave Danish Kaneria selection preference because he was Pakistan's future and Mushtaq was dropped in my captaincy. So, re was such thing as players were only picked if prayed namaz," Haq said. 

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Shoaib Akhtar makes big revelation 

Earlier on Thursday, citing examples of mistreatment faced by Kaneria, Shoaib Akhtar claimed that he was even barred from picking up food from same table as ors because of his religion.

“ captain would raise eyebrows about him eating with us or taking food from same table. I told him that you could be captain but your conduct is disgraceful. This guy is taking so many wickets to win matches for us and you’re treating him like this,” he furiously said.

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