New Delhi: Pakistan's left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir is likely to come out of retirement from international cricket. Pakistan's GeoSuper.TV reported on Sunday that Amir might return to playing international cricket if the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Rameez Raja decides to resign from his post after Imran Khan's ouster. This report comes after speculations surfaced that Ramiz Raja is unlikely to continue as PCB chief in the wake of Imran Khan's ouster.
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It is being reported that Mohammad Amir, who has represented Pakistan in 36 Tests, 61 ODIs, and 50 T20 Internationals, will himself announce his comeback to international cricket once Ramiz Raja resigns. The 29-year-old pace bowler had taken retirement in December 2020 saying that he was being mentally tortured. He had said, "I am quitting cricket for now because I am being mentally abused."
"I don’t think I can bear such torture. I’ve borne lots of torture from 2010 to 2015, for which I served my time. I’ve been tortured by being told the PCB invested a lot in me,” Amir had said in the year 2020 while announcing his retirement.
Amir had said that he would withdraw his retirement after the exit of then-coach Waqar Younis and Misbah-ul-Haq. Despite the change in the PCB setup, Ramiz Raja's tough stance and intolerant policy towards match-fixers stopped Amir from making his return to international cricket.
ICC had banned Amir from international cricket for five years after his involvement in the 2010 spot-fixing scandal in England.