Pakistani media have reported that their cricket board will request at the ICC that Amir, who spent a three-month jail sentence in England in the winter of 2011-12, will at least allow to play domestic cricket and to resume training at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.
Amir has to serve around half of the suspension that was imposed on him in early 2011 for his attachment in corruption exposed by the News of the World during Pakistan’s series in England the previous summer, when he banned at the age of 18.
After the first-innings lead of 193, they limited South Africa to 232 in their second innings, despite a 90 runs from AB de Villiers, with Junaid Khan finishing with three wickets and Saeed Ajmal still maintain his position as the world’s leading spinner with four for 74.
Afterwards Pakistan needing only 40 to win and, although their opening stand collapse to seven for three, losing two wickets to Vernon Philander and one to Dale Steyn, the captain Misbah-ul-Haq came in the field, with an unbeaten 28 from 26 balls, won the match with his second six.
The result maintained Pakistan’s unexpected record in the United Arab Emirates, where they beat England 3-0 in early 2012. If they success to white-washed series in the second Test in Dubai, it will create difficulties at the top of the official World Test Rankings.
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