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Mohammad Amir back in Pakistan team after five-year ban
Due to his age, the 23-year-old pacer must be given the benefit of doubt this time and assumed to be on the correct path, looking to earn an honest livelihood while regaining his honour.
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“First and foremost he’s been cleared to play all forms of cricket by the ICC (International Cricket Council)”.
“Pakistan hasn’t been really a bad ODI team”, Rasheed said, “What has been hampering them is the fielding and fitness”.
“He was a very young man at the time and he’s gone through a sound rehabilitation program”, the Blackcaps captain said.
“It’s not healed as well as I would like…we’ll see”. “I haven’t spoken to the board about it but my gut feel is that would be the consensus”. He had made his debut a year before against Sri Lanka. “I don’t want to point to anyone, but we need our players to cover all the three dimensions of the game”.
Amir has been selected to tour New Zealand this month for three Twenty20 and three one-day internationals.
His return was not welcomed by ODI skipper Azhar Ali and Mohammed Hafeez, but the PCB warned both the players.
He said he has a personal view that he won’t be sharing as it is an administrative issue rather than a coaching issue.
“I won’t be sharing that”.
“This is national team and we should only look towards Pakistan’s future”, he mentioned.
“I think we’d help [with the visa process]”.
IAN BOTHAM Banned for taking cannabis, he returned to Tests against New Zealand at the Oval in 1986. While backing Amir’s recall, chief selector Haroon Rashid had argued that despite having spent five years in the wilderness, Amir was “still better” than most of the players he is competing with for a place.
He has 51 wickets at 29.09 and 25 ODI scalps at 24.00 from 15 matches. Afridi said that former players, critics and fans should back Aamir when he returns to the field.
“Azhar Ali met the chairman PCB (Shaharyar Khan)”. Ramiz, though, was not yet convinced that Amir was an automatic selection in the playing eleven, and was anxious that the ghosts of his infamous no-ball at Lord’s five years ago could return to haunt him.
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T20 squad: Shahid Afridi (captain), Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan, Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfraz Ahmed, Anwar Ali, Imad Wasim, Wahab Riaz, Aamer Yamin, Umar Gul, Umar Akmal, Saad Nasim, Mohammad Amir.