http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Amir-c76675 to take part in PCB’s anti-corruption campaign – Cricket News Update
The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, Zaka Ashraf, has confirmed that the board will be using Mohammad Amir in an anti-corruption campaign, in addition to providing the young fast bowler an opportunity to undergo rehabilitation.
Following his conviction in a spot-fixing scandal, alongside teammates http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Asif-c1993, the 19-year-old returned to Pakistan in February this year, after his six-month sentence was halved. The PCB expressed an interest in rehabilitating him
immediately after he was released from the Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset, England.
In addition to the prison sentence, Amir was also handed a 5-year ban by an ICC tribunal from all forms of cricket. Following his release, he also decided to forego an appeal against the ban, which he had originally planned to lodge with the Court of Arbitration
for Sport (CAS).
“We can do the rehab programme while he is serving his ban ... and also use him in lectures to other players so that he can be financially helped,” Zaka Ashraf had said immediately after Amir was released from jail last month. “Definitely we will rehabilitate
Amir through an education programme,” he had added.
However, the idea appears to be taking concrete form, as the chairman has recently confirmed that plans for a rehab programme are underway. Amir, along with three other unnamed cricketers, will be a part of it.
“Along with Amir, three other cricketers will also be part of the rehabilitation process,” Ashraf said in an interview with
The Express Tribune. “We are searching for a good psychologist and all four will undergo treatment together.”
“Amir will then be used in a programme to lecture other players until his ICC ban ends.”
Amir’s story will no doubt provide an effective warning to others. Singled out by his idol, former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Twenty20 tournament.
Acknowledged as a highly talented young pacer, he went on the claim 51 wickets in 14 test matches and 25 wickets in 15 ODIs. However, what appeared to be a hugely promising career was cut short when he was charged and convicted in a spot-fixing case for
accepting corrupt payments in exchange for agreeing to bowl deliberate no-balls in a Test match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Lord’s in August 2010.
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