PCB to plead leniency for Aamir at ICC Board meet

Desperate to save the career of tainted pacer Muhammad Aamir, the Pakistan Cricket Board would try to seek ICC's permission for the youngster to start training at PCB facilities and play some domestic cricket.
The Pakistan Cricket Board will rake up the issue at the executive Board meeting of the ICC in London this week.
"We had taken the opinion of a queen's counsel in London and even in his report there are positive arguments that can help us convince the ICC Board to show some leniency in Aamir's ban period," Rizvi said.
The legal adviser said the head of the interim management committee of the board Najam Sethi had taken lot of interest in the case and would try to get permission for the youngster to either start training at PCB facilities or play some domestic cricket.

Sethi had also brought up the Aamir issue at the last ICC Board meeting after which the the governing body formed a special committee headed by Giles Clarke to look into the matter.
"Clarke will also be presenting the committee's findings at the Board meeting," Rizvi said.
Aamir was banned for five years for spot-fixing by the anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC in early 2011 and later also served a jail sentence in the United Kingdom after being found guilty by a crown court.