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Banned Mohammad Amir praying ICC will grant him second chance

Mohammad Aamir was banned for five years for spot-fixing by the anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC in ealry 2011 (File/AP)

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Rpt: Pak NM

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Banned Pakistan paceman Mohammad Aamir is praying the International Cricket Council (ICC) will gran hima reprieve to play domestic cricket as he seeks to resume a career that stalled under ignominious circumstances. Aamir, a bright prospect who made his international debut at 17, served three months in an English jail for corruption and is three years into a five-year ban for for his role in a spot-fixing scandal surrounding a test against England at Lord's in 2010.The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB),currently run by an interim committe headed by Najam Sethi, will up Aamir's case at an ICC board meeting this weekend and plead for a review of his ban on legal and compassionate grounds.
''What I did in 2010 was terrible and wrong and I have paid the price for it. I have lost my image and hurt my country and family,''Aamir told Reuters on Frieday. ''But everyone gets a second chance in life. I pray the ICC will give me a second chance.'' Tafazzul Rizvi, the PCB's legal advisor, said the board was trying to convince the ICC to allow Aamir, whose ban ends in 2015, to resume training at the board's facilities in Lahore or even play some club or domestic cricket.
'' We have sent a report to the ICC from a Queen's Counsel ( QC) we hired in London to look into 
the case and we are hoping it will help us plead our case strongly at the ICC meetings.''Rizvi said. The PCB had raised Aamir's case at the last ICC meeting following which the governing body formed a sub-committee,headed by England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke, to look into the issue.The sub-committee's findings would also come up for discussion during the ICC meetings in London,Rizvi added.
The left-arm paceman,now 21, added he wanted to rectify the mistake and start playing again.

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