Speedster Akhtar wants to guide `tainted` Amir

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has said returning to global cricket is not his primary objective and he is concentrating on playing domestic cricket in the country. Worldwide cricket is a tough environment – it’s not a joke.

“I am planning to buy a team in the PSL and would like to have Amir in my team so that I can guide him and make him an effective bowler”, Akhtar said.

Now 40, Akhtar’s career briefly overlapped with Amir, who made his debut in 2009 aged 17.

Amir took 51 wickets in 14 Tests and 25 in 15 one-day internationals before he was handed a five-year ban for bowling deliberate no-balls by pre-arrangement during the fourth test against England at Lord’s in 2010.

The Rawalpindi Express stated that everybody is aware of how gifted Amir was earlier than the ban, however added that he has to work actually exhausting to return to the identical type.

Amir has been playing domestic cricket in Pakistan since April this year, under a special dispensation offered by the ICC and has slowly but steadily regaining his potency as a lethal left-arm pacer. In a recent Quaid-e-Azam qualifying match, Amir took seven wickets for Sui Southern Gas Company, including a five-wicket haul, against Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL).

The divide in Pakistan cricket over whether the tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer should be allowed back into national cricket has become greater with the former skipper expressing concern it could eventually lead to their isolation.

“There is a lot of pressure on you in global cricket and I feel that I have to ensure that I am fully ready before I’m talked about for an worldwide recall”. “In addition, I’m also very grateful to the Pakistan Cricket Board for allowing me to play domestic cricket ahead of my ban and to use their facilities at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore”. “Please give up cricket now”, he told Younis Khan, reported Dunya News.

“(But) the chances (of a series) are getting slimmer because I think their problem is they mix politics with sports”.

“The PSL is Pakistan’s brand and everyone should support the PCB for its successful commencement”, Shoaib said.

Twenty20 leagues in India and Bangladesh have been hit by corruption scandals and Ramiz, who played 57 tests between 1984-1997, said PSL organisers must be vigilant against the menace.