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Pakistan paceman Mohammad Amir bowls against the West Indies at last year’s Cricket World Cup at Trent Bridge.
Pakistani officials confirmed that fast bowler Mohammad Amir’s attractive international cricket career ended on Thursday.
Amir announced his decision to local Samaa television, saying he was “mentally tortured” by his Pakistani teammates and coaches, the national board and opponents wherever he played.
The Executive Director of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Wasim Khan, spoke with Amir, 28.
“He has no desire or intention to play international cricket and as such should not be considered for future international matches,” the PCB said in a statement.
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“This is a personal decision of Mohammad Amir, which the PCB respects and as such will not comment further on this matter at this stage.”
The board that did not thank Amir for his services underscored the depth of the estrangement between them.
The southpaw took 259 wickets in 36 tests, 61 one-day internationals and 50 Twenty20s.
Amir was 18 when he was suspended in 2010 for five years and jailed for three months for fixing points in a series of tests in England. He was allowed to return to cricket a few months earlier and was withdrawn by Pakistan in 2016.
In 2019 he no longer wanted to play tests, focus on cue ball cricket and extend his international career.
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Left gunsmith Mohammad Amir took 259 wickets in 36 tests, 61 one-day internationals and 50 Twenty20s for Pakistan.
His last international match was in August in a T20 against England. He was not part of the local limited overs series against Zimbabwe and was excluded from the T20 series in New Zealand as of Friday.
“I am quitting cricket for now because they are mentally torturing me,” Amir told Samaa TV. “I don’t think I can bear such torture.
“I have endured a lot of torture from 2010 to 2015, so I served my sentence. They tortured me when they told me that the PCB invested a lot in me.
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“I will just say that two people invested a lot in me: Najam Sethi (the former president of the PCB) and Shahid Afridi (former captain of Pakistan). They were the only two.
“The rest of the team said we don’t want to play with Amir.
“Recently, the atmosphere that has been created means that they tease me all the time when they tell me that I don’t want to play for my country.
“Every two months, someone says something against me. Sometimes the bowling coach (Waqar Younis) says that Amir abandoned us, sometimes they tell me that my workload is not satisfactory. Enough is enough.”
