Waqar Younis calls for reduction in Amir's ban - Cricket News Update
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"If the ban reduction can be considered then they should do that, every law gives margin," said Younis while speaking to media reporters on Friday.
Younis said that it is difficult for a pacer to find form and fitness after staying out of cricket for such a long time, and on this pretext insisted that the governing body should consider a reduction in Amir’s ban.
"It's difficult for a fast bowler to keep himself fit if he is not allowed to play even club cricket. We must have sympathy with him because he is so young. His talent will not only be missed by me but also by the Pakistan team," he added further.
The plea by Younis has come just a day after the 19-year-old left-arm paceman was released from a London jail, where he was detained for his involvement in spot-fixing. Initially Amir was given a six months jail-sentence by the Southwark Crown Court of London
but because of his good behaviour, he has been released after serving half of the punishment.
Amir - along with two other teammates, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Lord’s in August 2010. He along with the two other Pakistani agreed to deliver deliberate no balls at
the behest of an English bookmaker during the Lord’s Test match. The story was broken by the British tabloid newspaper, News of the World.
Besides respective detentions, the trio are serving lengthy bans from cricket that was imposed by the ICC anti-corruption tribunal in February last year. The three players are serving a minimum five-year ban from all levels of cricket.
The ICC ban means the teenager cannot take part in any, national or international, cricketing activity before September 2015. Younis called such a lengthy ban as a career death sentence.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325 urged that the young pacer should be given the benefit of doubt as he was too young and could have been misguided.
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