Sindh HC rejects petition seeking life ban on Pak's returning tainted bowler Mohammad Amir

A legal petition seeking a life ban on fast bowler Mohammad Amir, just weeks after the former Pakistani bowler returned to domestic cricket following a match-fixing suspension, has been dismissed by the Sindh High Court (SHC).

The left-armer got permission from the International Cricket Council (ICC) to return early to domestic cricket from his five-year ban over the infamous spot-fixing episode in a Test against England in 2010.

Lawyer Rana Faizul Hassan filed a petition in the Sindh High Court in February calling for Amir to be banned for life to stop him damaging the image of Pakistan and cricket, but the SHC threw out the application on Tuesday after the lawyer repeatedly failed to show up for hearings, The Dawn reported.

Hassan revealed that the SHC rejected his petition of demanding lifetime ban on Amir on non-persecution basis. He insisted that he had not been able to appear before the court because of his busy schedule and a two-judge bench dismissed the case.

Amir made his comeback in Pakistani grade-two cricket, one rung below first class, on March 13, taking three wickets in his first spell of bowling.

Amir was one of three Pakistani players banned from cricket for at least five years for arranging no-balls to order, in the Lord's Test against England in 2010, the report added.