Mohammad Amir is serving a five-year ban for spot fixing. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
Amir, who was jailed in England for corruption and is also serving a five-year ban for spot fixing during a test at Lord's in 2010, urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to review and change its current system of anti-corruption enforcement and laws.
"Fixing of cricket matches must be made an criminal offence where the punishment should be hard jail," Amir, who was released after three months of his six-month prison sentence in England, told the Geo Super sports channel on Thursday.
"Only then will players be willing to report any approach or offer or unusual activity to the ICC anti-corruption and security unit officers or their management without fear."
Earlier this week Dravid, who has been named as a witness in a major spot-fixing scandal that tainted this year's Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 competition, said merely educating players of the perils of match-fixing was not enough.
"I have been through a lot at a young age and I have learnt a lot. I made costly mistakes. But in order to prevent others from being lured into corruption tougher laws are required by the ICC," said the 21-year-old, who was banned in 2011 by an ICC anti-corruption tribunal with team mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif.
"Main thing is that the ICC needs to keep track of all phone calls made by players and officials during a tour or tournament even if they need help of local police to make this legally possible."
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I had requested to cricket lover to pardon Muhammad Amir but it looks as if no one is not hardly keeping interest for pardoning him, those support also half-heartedly, the holy month of Ramzan had passed so peacefully and we have celebrated Eid-ul- fitr with full mood and now 14th august with real and fervor if all it is combined to gather, it deems great happiness, then a forgiveness is great benevolence, and quality of Allah, that Muhammad Amir needs from his nation , “one pardon Tu banti hay”. So i put forward my request once again to forgive him , so that he can appear in cricket grounds of the world as prince of Pakistan cricket team once again.strong text
Dear all who say ban him for life,
When you make a huge mistake, does Allah say I will never forgive him? No he doesn't, he gives us chances after chances then who are we to say ban Amir for life. Lets be honest, we all make huge mistakes in life, and we are forgiven when asked for forgiveness so forgive Amir and hope he doesn't make the same mistake again Inshallah
@anwar: wow, I think we must kiss your hand, it appears you have never made any mistake in your life and if, and is a BIG IF, you did then you on your own will not expect any pardon or excuse of any sort, let alone anyone giving you one. Get real...
I'm hoping that he truly repents. Any cricket lover would like to see good talent, and the worst thing is to see is such an exciting new talent being wasted, be it from any country. His ban was a big loss for Pakistan and I wish all the fans of Pakistan cricket better days in the future. I want to wish everyone in Pakistan a happy Eid and a better future.
How about the death penalty for all future and previous culprits?
I thought we are a nation of tolerance and resilience, if we cannot tolerate and show resilience for one own cricket. I suggest being lenient toward all human beings and learning for pardon and not punishment is positive, tomorrow we all will be standing before Allah Pak and begging for pardon, if we don’t in this world what face we will have before Allah in the next
Now that he can't make any more money out of fixing... he does'nt want any one else to make it as well... clever kid!!! (Just like in school)
Aamir as a young pace attack bowler is beyond compare and as no peers in his age group. However, let him know that education and good manners do not come easy. A lot of self modification is required. Salams
@sid: Laws like this cannot be applied retrospectively. If you want it then punish Hansie Cronje from his grave as well!!
Lol! Amir will say anything to reserve his place in the national team after his ban term expires. Keep dreaming son.
I thought we are a nation of tolerance and resilience, if we cannot tolerate and show resilience for one own young cricketer then how we will live with FATA people, those turned in to Taliban, should we just abort them and do another partition? I suggest being lenient toward all human beings and learning for pardon and not punishment is positive, tomorrow we all will be standing before Allah Pak and begging for pardon, if we don’t in this world what face we will have before Allah in the next. Allah be our guide after this day of Eid ul fiter.
So the kid did not even know if match fixing was a crime or a money making trick and spent time behind bars. Please educate our cricketers without minding the other nations.
In addition to hard jail time those who are approached and do not share that info with the authorities (whether they accept money or not) also be banned. I am sure that many players in the team knew about what was going on but kept quiet about that. Being an accessory in a serious crime is also a crime. After we lost Sydney test and the best cricketer Pakistan had in a long time (Yusuf) the cheats took over. In other words the cheaters not only sold the test but also grabbed the team leadership. What a criminal conspiracy to oust the captain and take over the team.
Oh Aamir was my favorite but he really disappointed us.
But the law must be applied retrospectively.................
We forgive him and want to erase his memories from our minds. His comeback will bring those memories back and it will not be good for cricket.
Anyone who sells out Pakistan once should NEVER be allowed a second chance.If you get Aamir back in the team,he will serve as an inspiration to other youngsters to sell out,make money,apologise and you represent Pakistan again.18 or 80,should be banned for life.
Now that he has been caught and punished.. he can say any thing to get sympathy. Cheats should never be pardoned.. especially when they cheated the nation. The plea that he was young is no excuse because even a 10 year old knows what is right from wrong. If fixing should be discouraged, amir along with both his friends should be banned for life. Period. the only question is, are the cricket administrators and people of this country have the will and courage to accept such tough decisions for the sake of this country
so pakistanis are realized fixing is crime after jail.
I LOVE you aamir
Amir was prince of Pakistan Cricket Team, but on making such a drastic mistake became unwanted, as now he repents for his wronging and getting involved in money making business out of game and not knowing the value of love that people owe him for his game and the value of talent that he presented in such a young age, all this is a great tragedy with cricket and cricket lovers across the world beside off course for him and his parents, just putting the respect that they must have earned over generation after generation. People of that are will never forgive his entire family for ages to come, but still I have soft corner for him and pledge every one ICC, PCB and people of Pakistan, cricket lover across the world and people of Gujar khan ( خان گوجر ) to pardon him forever and do not mention that what he has done before at the same time I assure you being his elder that in future he will never indulge in such heinous activities and will never be greedy of money, to the extent whatever he will earn 1/2 will shower (نچھاور ) on the shrine of Baba BARI Shah Latif. But for Allah almighty sake forgive him from your hearts on this Eid-ul Fitar day of 2013.