“Some not comfortable about playing with Aamir”
Shaharyar said, in an interview to a private television channel, to be aired later on Thursday, “What the former players are saying about allowing him to return to international cricket holds weight and we have got murmurings from the dressing room as well that some players are not comfortable about playing with him again.”
It was a wrong impression that the board wanted to rush back Aamir into the national team said by the PCB chief.
“Our point is clear… Decision about allowing him back to into the national team has not been taken. Right now we are following a process of the International Cricket Council to allow him back into domestic cricket before his ban ends as per the revised anti-corruption code,” he said.
Shaharyar dictated it had to be first seen if the ICC even cleared Aamir to resume playing domestic cricket as his ban officially ends only in August, 2015.
“Some not comfortable about playing with Aamir”
“We will first see what happens if he gets permission to resume playing domestic cricket and we don’t want to rush things in this case and,” he pointed out.
Aamir, along with Salman Butt and Muhammad Asif, was banned for a minimum of five years for spot fixing during a Test in England by an anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC in early 2011.
Meanwhile, Shaharyar confirmed that for next year’s World Cup senior bureaucrat Naveed Akram Cheema was in line to be appointed manager of the national team.