Aamir may play domestic cricket by end of year

Banned Pak pace bowler Mohammad Aamir could get back to playing domestic cricket this winter, if the chairman of PCB Najam Sethi is to be believed. Sethi told reporters in Lahore Friday after returning from attending this week’s executive board meeting of ICC in Dubai he was hopeful ICC would reduce the five-year ban on Aamir by a year.

‘Since we forcefully took up his case last year the ICC had formed a special committee to look into the anomalies in the existing ICC anti-corruption laws and clauses and there good news is they also appear to understand our stance on Aamir’s ban,’ he said.

‘The ICC committee will submit its report in June this year recommending amendments in the anti-corruption laws and we are confident these could lead to a one-year reduction in the ban period on Aamir,’ Sethi said.

‘Aamir could be allowed to resume playing domestic first class cricket later this year,’ he added.