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Home > Cricket > Reuters > Report

Kaneria goes back to basics

November 18, 2005 15:48 IST

Pakistan leg spinner Danish Kaneria went back to the drawing board to plot England's downfall in the first Test.

Kaneria took four wickets in England's second innings score of 175 to pilot Pakistan to an improbable win.

"In Multan after the first innings when I got just one wicket I went back to the basics," he said.

"I viewed a lot of footage of their batsmen to find out where I had gone wrong. It helped a lot second time around."

Kaneria said: "The footage of their first innings helped me devise a different plan for every batsman -- the field to set for him, where to pitch the ball and what delivery to bowl to whom."

The 25-year-old, who has taken 75 wickets in his last 15 Tests, said it was not easy bowling to batsmen who had come from the Ashes series where they had played Australia's Shane Warne.

"My advantage is I bowl a lot of googlies and wrong-uns and that kept them guessing although the pitch was slow."

He added: "They have some quality players and you can't do much with run-of-the-mill stuff against them. But the key element is to keep working hard."

The second Test in the three-match series starts in Faisalabad on Sunday.



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