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Mohammad Amir Najam can make a comeback in coming January: Najam Sethi

October 24, 2013 by Outlook Pakistan Leave a Comment

Mohammad Amir can make a comeback in coming January: Najam Sethi

Interim PCB chairman Najam Sethi has claimed that nation can expect a good news about the return of Pakistani banned fast bowler, Mohammad Amir in January next year.
In an interview, Sethi said that there is a great chance that ICC can rethink over the shortening of the 5 year ban on Young bowler when it meets again in January next year. Sethi was specifically sympathetic about the 21 year bowler as he had admitted to his guilt at once for spot fixing in Lords back at 2010. Now Sethi is persuading ICC to allow Amir to practice in National Cricket Academy and play Domestic cricket so that he is fit enough to start playing international cricket as soon as the 5 year Ban is revoked.
The decision is pending with international governing body till its next meeting in which Amir’s case shall be considered after a revised anti-corruption code was adopted. Amir has already said that he is desperate to make a comeback in the international cricket.

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New PCB chief Najam Sethi to appeal Amir ban

by Chaitanya on Monday, June 24th, 2013

Spot-Fixing: Pakistan’s interim cricket chief Najam Sethi said, he would ask the sport’s governing body to reduce a five-year ban against promising fast bowler Mohammad Amir for spot fixing.

Mohammad Amir, regarded as hot property in international cricket for his pace and guile, was banned with team-mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif in February 2011 by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The trio were exposed in a sting operation by now defunct British tabloid News of the World, which saw them promising to bowl deliberate no-balls in return for money in the 2010 Lord’s Test against England.

All three and their agent Mazhar Majeed were also jailed in 2011.

Najam Sethi, appointed interim chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Sunday, said he would ask the ICC to reduce Amir’s ban at its annual meeting in London starting on Tuesday.

Najam Sethi told a press conference: “Amir is our talented cricketer and I will request the ICC that (as) he has spent two and a half years of his ban, was also jailed, so for God’s sake reduce his ban”.

Under the ICC players code of conduct the minimum punishment for such a violation is five years. Sethi, a 65-year-old journalist who was also interim chief minister of Punjab during a recent general election campaign, replaced Zaka Ashraf after he was suspended on charges of being dubiously elected.

Najam Sethi promised accountability over any failings of the national team following their dismal show in the Champions Trophy where they lost all three matches.

“I want to stress that in the future the captain, coach, vice captain and the selection committee will be held accountable in case the team fails in any event”.

Najam Sethi said events such as Saturday’s killing of 10 foreign climbers in the north made it difficult to bring international cricket back to Pakistan, a task he said would be for a permanent chairman.

International cricket has been suspended in Pakistan since militants attacked the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009, forcing the national team to play their home matches on neutral venues.

Najam Sethi said the squad for the upcoming tour of the West Indies would be announced later this week. Pakistan will play five one-day and two Twenty20 internationals in the Caribbean next month.

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