PCB retracts plan to arrange press conference for Amir – Cricket News Update
Following Mohammad Amir’s release from prison after his conviction in a spot-fixing scandal, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board had initially expressed the intent to arrange a press conference for him, but this idea was recently shelved.
Sources close to the PCB revealed to the PTI that the board had decided to facilitate the young pacer by arranging a conference which would allow him to redeem himself in front of the nation. The idea first occurred to board officials when they met with
Amir following his return to Pakistan after serving half of his six-month sentence at the Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
The 19-year-old was charged and convicted for spot-fixing during a Test match against England at Lord’s in 2010. Along with teammates http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-Butt-c2418, the left-armer had entered into a plot which involved bowling deliberate no-balls
in return for accepting corrupt payments.
After his release, the fast bowler faces the challenge of cleaning up his image, a task that the PCB had initially planned to help him with.
“Basically, the idea to hold a press conference was that it would allow Amir the chance to collectively address the media and admit his guilt and apologise for his actions to the nation,” the source explained.
However, the situation was made complicated owing to the 5-year ban imposed on Amir by an http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 tribunal, which forbids the board from providing him any sort of aid.
“But since the conditions of the ICC ban clearly state that he can't use any facility of the Board nor can the home Board provide him any sort of assistance this idea was dropped to avoid another controversy,” the source revealed.
Despite this, Amir had the chance to speak out and offer his side of the story in a recent interview he gave to former England skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Michael-Andrew-Atherton-c75750, which was broadcast on Sky Sports this Monday. Revealing that he had been dragged into the entire fiasco
by Salman Butt, whom he had considered his elder brother, Amir apologized to the nation and his fans.
“I ask for their forgiveness. I messed up,” he said.
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