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 Mohammad Amir Left arm Fast bowler Pakistani cricketer spot-fixing scandal

 Aamir, a left-arm pace bowler, reveres Wasim Akram.  he also emerged, young still, as a hot pace prospect. In  England on an U-19 tour, he had been picked out as a special talent by wasim Akram himself at a pace training cricket camp.

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Michael Holding hopes jailed bowler Mohammad Amir will play cricket again one day.

The Sky Sports commentator says it will be a "great waste" if the 19-year-old, sentenced to six months behind bars for deliberately bowling no-balls in last summer's Lord's Test against England, does not return to the game in the future.
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While Holding in no way condones the player's illegal activities, he told Sky Sports News HD that he did submit a statement to court in Amir's mitigation based purely on the teenager's ability.

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"What I saw on that particular day, it seemed to me - and again, I'm not trying to read people's minds or be some psychologist - that Mohammad Amir did not necessarily want to do what he did at that time." 

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"When I was approached by Mohammad Amir's lawyers - because I think they recognized how distressed I was that he was involved in all this at a tender age - they asked me just to write to the judge to say on Mohammad Amir's behalf what I thought of him as a cricketer," he explained.
"Obviously I don't know Mohammad Amir as a person; I was just talking about what I saw in Mohammad Amir as a cricketer and what I thought he could contribute to the game in the future.
"That's all I did - I wrote a letter to the judge; I wasn't asking for any leniency for Mohammad Amir. I was just asking the judge to look at the fact that he is such a young man with such talent and someone that the game could use in the future.
"Someone of 18 years old knows exactly what he is doing; you can't really say that at 18 years old that you aren't conscious of doing wrong.
"But I can also understand that someone of 18 years old coming from the background from which he has come, can be influenced and I think that people deserve second chances in life."

Convinced

Holding, who took 246 wickets for West Indies in 60 Tests, said he now believes that Amir might have been a reluctant participant in the match-fixing scam.

Former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for his part in the plot at Lord's, while seamer Mohammad Asif has received a 12-month prison term.
Reflecting on the Lord's Test, in which Amir deliberately bowled two no-balls, Holding reflected: "What I saw on that particular day, it seemed to me - and again, I'm not trying to read people's minds or be some psychologist - that Mohammad Amir did not necessarily want to do what he did at that time.
"Perhaps he would have done it at another time, I have no idea, but it seemed to me that he was being convinced to do what he did because if you listen to my commentary at the time I said on Sky 'the captain and the bowler are having a very long discussion' and at the end of this discussion I said 'let us see what the discussion has brought'.

  

"There was no field change, nothing. I said 'well, no change so far'. I am obviously thinking that they were just discussing tactics or what they should do to this particular batsman because he was bowling so well and Pakistan were on top, but looking back at it with hindsight I can now only conclude that he was being convinced to go through with what had been planned and perhaps he didn't necessarily want to be doing it."

Pro-active

Holding hopes that the ICC will begin to tackle the problem of spot-fixing in cricket around the globe in a more pro-active manner.
"I hope this acts as a deterrent to others who may be thinking about doing the same thing, not just in England but any cricketer anywhere in the world," he said.
"Any country anywhere in the world that catches people doing this sort of thing should be doing the same thing that they have done in England, because we certainly need to stamp this out of our game.
"Cricket will recover from this. What the ICC and all cricket boards around the world need to do, though, is make sure that it is not a news journalist or a police officer tapping someone's phone who finds the next person who is cheating.
"They, with their anti-corruption unit, should be a lot more proactive; they should be able to weed out some of these people."
Source: 3rd November 2011 source:skysports