Imran Khan : Don't think Mohammad Amir will get a hostile reception in England

Six years after the infamous incident at the Lord’s, Mohammad Amir will travel back to the place where everything went wrong for him. Amir, then 18, along with then Pakistan captain Salman Butt, and pacer Mohammad Asif were found guilty of deliberately bowling no-balls in return for money in the 2010 Lord’s Test in August against England. Amir then received a custodial sentence, and a five-year suspension from the ICC. He made his return to International cricket back in January, this year, during Pakistan’s tour of New Zealand, and he has quickly become an integral part of the limited-overs squad.

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So I don't think any ill-feeling or negativity from the players will have carried through. (But) the crowd might be a different story"

England pacer Stuart Broad had earlier welcomed the 24-year-old pacer back to Test cricket and had warned him about the hostile reception from the crowd, saying “the crowd might be a different story.”

"There are only four players in (this) England team from then, and Pakistan had a huge change-over.

"So I don't think any ill-feeling or negativity from the players will have carried through.

Imran Khan also said that he would have preferred Misbah-ul-Haq as the captain for the World T20 in March instead of Shahid Afridi.

"If I had been there I would have had Misbah-ul-Haq as captain in the recent World T20," he added, reported PTI. 

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