Former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir hit again at his nation’s cricket group management panel, citing the instance of Jasprit Bumrah. The 28-year-old in an unique interplay with Cricket Pakistan mentioned that the Indian seamer acquired huge support from his group management regardless of producing below-par performances.
“I think it is not the right mindset to look at performance of only four or five matches. If you remember, [Jasprit] Bumrah had only one wicket in 16 matches when he was playing Australia series but nobody questioned him because they knew that he is a match-winning bowler. That was the time they [Indian team management] should have supported him and they did that,” mentioned Amir.
“You are given the job to help the player when he is not performing and not just discard him from the side. If it’s like this, then we should give you an entire team made up of players like Cristiano Ronaldo so that you can sit back and relax and do nothing,” he added.
Amir additionally confirmed that he has no intention of popping out of retirement to play worldwide cricket, earlier than including that there are not any battle between him and the group management.
“I carefully looked at all my options and assessed the situation before taking the decision about retirement. I’m enjoying cricket and spending time with my family and currently have no plans about taking back my retirement,” he mentioned.
“If it was only about my performance, I would have never taken the decision about retirement. But their [team management] statements about me regarding my retirement from Test cricket really hurt me. I have no personal issue with them as they are my elders and legends of the game,” he concluded.
The Pakistan pacer hung his boots from worldwide cricket in December 2020.
