Mohammad Aamer

[Pak_Fan_4_Eva]

No matter how true your statement holds' date=' but don't you think just how the batsmen are expected to prove their worth on green pitches, shouldn't the bowlers prove theirs in conditions that are not seam/swing friendly ?[/quote'] That`s a valid argument. Actually that`s the beauty of cricket. Varying conditions in different places and it poses a challenge to each and every player. But still, I think the sort of pitches BEING prepared in the sub continent are a disgrace. They COULD be done much better so that they can at least be called " sporting wickets". Instead, those pitches receive a volley of abuse mostly from bowlers and fans who understand cricket and perhaps rightly so

[Guest Hiten.]

That`s a valid argument. Actually that`s the beauty of cricket. Varying conditions in different places and it poses a challenge to each and every player. But still, I think the sort of pitches BEING prepared in the sub continent are a disgrace. They COULD be done much better so that they can at least be called " sporting wickets". Instead, those pitches receive a volley of abuse mostly from bowlers and fans who understand cricket and perhaps rightly so

I forgot to mention that I do not vouch for the highways where batsmen are allowed to speed at 200 runs per innings :giggle:.

[Pak_Fan_4_Eva]

^Neither do I. I know where you`re pointing at :winky: and I assure you, i dislike it myself

[Sachinism]

I used to wonder how he managed to motivate himself in that team, now I know

[bhanu]

I used to wonder how he managed to motivate himself in that team' date=' now I know[/quote'] What do mean?

[Steyn]

Goodbye baby...go to hell safely.

[Params7]

Look like our next Wasim Akram can kiss his career goodbye for a while now.

[Guest sachin200]

take that Aamer :finger:

[IKnowU]

He was probably pressured into bowling into no balls. He would have got a guaranteed 1 million plus IPL deal if he had stayed clean. Unfortunately not.

[Indiafan_Hyd]

He was probably pressured into bowling into no balls. He would have got a guaranteed 1 million plus IPL deal if he had stayed clean. Unfortunately not.

Ppl dont commit a crime expecting to get caught... Probably AAmir was eyeing Match fixing money + IPL money.... Pakis are greedy B$*(%ards u see... Anywayz...we Indians wd be dumb****s if we allow these animals into IPL especially after Mumbai...

[Asim]

everyone admitted he is so mature at 18, so he shown some maturity while fixing too... taking 6 wickets in a fixed inng... :haha: p.s. wot shame...

[suraj]

Really sad turn of events hope it is all not true & he is really innocent

[Bumper]

We've seen it all with Pakistani players. I'll stick my neck out & predict that "Aaamer" would be a goner two years from now. He'd be a nobody. He is very talented and all' date= but it takes more than just that to survive in Pakistani cricket. Remember Mohammad Zaid, their fastest bowler ever ? He hardly played 16 games before succumbing to a serious stress fracture. More recently, Sami, Sohail Tanvir, Asif, Rana, Akhtar et all have only flattered to deceive. They've all either withered away or fallen to drugs or gone the ICL route. Kamran Akmal who was touted to be a genius of a wickie & an awesome bat, is no more than an FTB now & a goal keeper behind the stumps.Add Taufeeq Umar, Imran Nazir, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Misbah and the list goes on. Pakistani cricket simply does not have the leadership to groom great players. Couple of losses is all it takes to form factions within the team. Everybody starts blaming everybody else. And sooner than you realize the supposed stalwarts will be fighting for their spot in the team. Well & truly a circus!

This is what i predicted last year when the entire world was going gaga over Aamer. I guess there is a good chance Aamer will never play the game again.

[Texy]

I am hugely disappointed....he was one kid I really admired from the cheating team

[bhanu]

I am hugely disappointed....he was one kid I really admired from the cheating team

Well he is a cheater now i hope he gets banned for life so the young bowler that might come in future den amir will b da example of match ficxing punishment :((

[ensd2]

Really sad turn of events hope it is all not true & he is really innocent

:omg::omg::omg::omg::omg:

[vamos_rafa]

The boy in the eye of the storm Tucked away from the main, more opulent residential area of Changa Bangial village in Pakistan is an enclave of 18 households belonging to the same extended family. For this clan of modest means and education, an army colonel and a police sub-inspector provided the only living source of familial pride. Then a 17-year-old boy shot to fame with his immense cricketing talent and became the sole identity, not just for the family, but for the whole village, and the nearest city, Gujar Khan. This young man, Mohammed Amir, is now embroiled in a spot-fixing case that has the potential to end his breathtakingly promising career in its infancy. The people of entire Gujar Khan tehsil see it only as a conspiracy to rob them of their pride. They are united in defending Amir's honour as their own. Hurt not as much by the suspension of Amir (and two teammates) by the International Cricket Council (ICC) ahead of the ODI series against England, as by the “revelations of Amir's ill-gotten riches†by a certain news group in Pakistan, their first line of defence is to bar all media from getting to the family. I travel 70 km from Islamabad to get to Changa Bangial, where a local, Mirza Munir, has arranged my visit to Dhok Jandaran, the official name of the locality where Amir's family lives. But he tells me straight off that I may not be able to talk to anyone there, not even to kids in the street. Amir's family feels threatened by newsmen and Munir, as a fellow villager, is on the side of the family. We leave the main road for a narrow concrete path that curves around a field and brings us to an intersection where a mud track runs half a kilometre to the cluster of houses on our right that is Dhok Jandaran. Munir stops at the intersection and points to the ground in the corner: “This is where Amir played cricket in his childhood.†It's not a playground. It is a piece of untended land earmarked for the construction of a girls' high school that was never built. There's wild growth all over and the surface is bumpy. The recent monsoon spell probably. We take the dirt track and stop in a square that is the entrance to the enclave. Two narrow, winding streets lead off at a right angle. All the houses have low boundary walls and identical name plates stuck to them. The streets are paved and clean. No open sewers and no stench of cow dung. Many of houses are single-storied and all are small but neat and well presented. Amir's house is at the far edge of the enclave with open fields on two sides. A Pakistani flag embellished with golden border is flying on a pole fixed on the rooftop — a symbol of pride for Amir's father, Mohammed Fayyaz, for having served in the Pakistan army. He retired as a sepoy. The door is opened by Amir's youngest brother, Mohammed Ramzan. He whispers something in Munir's ear and hurriedly walks past me avoiding eye contact. Munir leads me into the house — three rooms built around a courtyard. The baithak — village speak for drawing room — is furnished in traditional style. Two chorpoys covered with brightly coloured bed sheets, a wooden sofa set with floral upholstery, vinyl flooring, dark coloured curtains of coarse material and a wooden rack along the length of a wall, displaying gold-rimmed tea cups and saucers. There is no one meeting us here though. We are welcome to the house but not to the occupants. Amir is not here anyway. He has a house in Lahore where his parents join him off and on. In their absence, Amir's sister, eldest among the siblings, manages the village house. It takes me a few minutes of wandering around to find another young man in the street. He is curt and unwilling to talk. Then his father shows up and introduces himself as Amir's paternal uncle, Raja Mehmood Ahmed. I introduce myself as a journalist who only wishes to hear the family talk about Amir, and not the spot-fixing case. I am invited in, and a little later Amir's elder brother and mentor, Mohammed Ijaz also joins us. Ijaz, 25, runs a jewellery shop in Gujar Khan. He is wearing Pakistan cricket's official track suit. “Is it Amir's?†Yes, he replies with a hint of pride and affection for the kid brother who excelled his older brothers in the game they all love. Amir is the fifth among six brothers and except for the eldest, all have played tennis-ball cricket together in the village and all are left handers. “We had enough boys within the family to make two teams of six or seven players each. Amir used to be among the youngest but he bowled really fast, even for us older batsmen. I don't remember he was ever hit for a six,†says Ijaz, a left arm leg spinner himself. The youngest, Ramzan, is the only one eyeing professional cricket. He's also a leg spinner “and a decent batsman down the order,†adds Ijaz. Ramzan is shy and lets Ijaz do most of the talking. At 16, Ramzan is following in Amir's footsteps, all the way from the middle school in the village to the boarding school cum cricket academy in Rawalpindi where Amir played with a cricket ball for the first time. “Watching Amir bowl with a tennis ball, I was convinced that he'll make it big if only he can play with [a] hard ball. But we didn't have the means to get the gear. Whenever our mother went out shopping to town, Amir would insist on buying the gear but was always told we couldn't afford it.†SPOTTING HIS TALENT A grown-up cricket enthusiast in the village spotted the talent in Amir, took him to the academy in the big city, and bought him his first kit. Now Amir can possibly buy the best gear in the world but his brothers are still using his hand-me-down kits. “None of us has ever bought cricket gear. Ramzan has a full kit that he got from Amir. His bat is the one Amir used for his record score against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi. His pads, gloves, everything is second hand, and he's proud of it,†adds Ijaz. When Amir is in the village, they still play together. “When he is home, he's not a star, just a cricket loving boy of the village. He even plays with little kids. He adores our sister's only son Mohammed Kaif :hmmm:, 4, and takes him out for games all the time,†says Ijaz, pushing little Kaif to say his salam to the guests. What do you want to be when you grow up? A batsman or bowler? “I want to be like Amir mamoon,†pat comes the reply. On the way back I ask Munir if he is into cricket at all. “Me,†he laughs, “Never even watched a match in my 50 years.†Still, what does he make of the allegations Amir is facing? “All I know is he is a good boy who's made Changa Bangial proud, and nothing anyone says is going to change that. The young in the village adore him for his game. He is their hero, and that isn't going to change either. Just give it time and his innocence will be proved to the whole worldâ€.

[Asim]

Who wrote this and where it got published first? "The people of entire Gujar Khan tehsil see it only as a conspiracy to rob them of their pride. They are united in defending Amir's honour as their own"... its not exactly like that here, as I also belong to "Gujjar Khan" and I also talked to many of his village fellows or people here in Gujjar Khan, they neither are favoring him too much in case "if proven guilty" :) nor too much against him and honestly speaking most of them belive on it and says yes he might have done this all but also belive that not for that money rather under some pressure of his own team mates because at this stage of his career he can never afford to get against the "wish" of his senior players...

[vamos_rafa]

Who wrote this and where it got published first? "The people of entire Gujar Khan tehsil see it only as a conspiracy to rob them of their pride. They are united in defending Amir's honour as their own"... its not exactly like that here, as I also belong to "Gujjar Khan" and I also talked to many of his village fellows or people here in Gujjar Khan, they neither are favoring him too much in case "if proven guilty" :) nor too much against him and honestly speaking most of them belive on it and says yes he might have done this all but also belive that not for that money rather under some pressure of his own team mates because at this stage of his career he can never afford to get against the "wish" of his senior players...

It has been written by MASUD ALAM. I read in a daily called The Hindu. Here is the link for it : http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article790895.ece.

[Hafeez]

highly impressed with this kid.... I see a glimpse of future Akram

yes he was Future Wasim akram Let,s Hope Junaid khan became Wasim Akram type of Pacer for us in future