Amir's return to cricket will take some time, says ICC

Acknowledging the receipt of Pakistan Cricket Board's request letter for tainted pacer Mohammad Amir's early return to cricket, International Cricket Council chief executive officer Dave Richardson on Monday said that the international body has taken note of the issue but the matter will take some time to get resolved.

"The PCB has written to us regarding Mohammed Amir. But there is a process to be followed," said Richardson.

"Interviews need to be conducted with the player involved to establish his state of mind and how he has progressed. And things will be taken from there. So it's not going to be a short process but one which will require

our attention," Richardson said in New Delhi.

Earlier, a PCB official had claimed that the Board had urged the ICC to allow Aamir to play in domestic cricket before his ban ends.

"We have conveyed to the ICC that we would like Amir to be given permission to play domestic cricket before his ban ends in August 2015," the official said.

Aamir, 22, is serving a five-year ban imposed on him and his team mates, Salman Butt and Muhammad Asif, by the ICC after the spot fixing scandal broke out during Pakistan's tour of England in 2010.

The ICC recently revised its anti-corruption code, allowing the the anti-corruption unit chief to review a case of a banned player to make an early return to domestic cricket before the end of the ban.
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