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Well... BUTT

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The first time I saw him was against the Aussies in England, and then against us! oh he was good....

I cant remember being so excited about such a young bowler in years... He could have been a great.

Very sad.

Ahh I missed it but repeat is on at 9. Thanks for letting me know.

Got it on now, i hate him, not worth giving him the airtime.

What an idiotic fool. Anyone and i mean anyone would have informed the ICC who doesnt want to cheat. He knows what he was doing.

He may have been an idiotic fool, but he is just being made a scapegoat. Plenty more people at it in my opinion, who just haven't been caught yet.

His bowling was a treat to watch and much-needed in an era of poor bowlers, short boundaries and flat wickets.

I feel sorry for him. Butt has well and truely destroyed him. I think he was naive more than anything else. I've always said that the ICC ban of 5 years is harsh. I think the boy should be given a second chance after a couple of years because of age and a lack of knowledge.
Having said that, his interview with athers is too little too late. Amir should have been upfront from the start. This leads to the main issue in all of this for me..... The PCB. He's been ill-advised and dumped to be blunt. The old PCB should be shot in my opinion.

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However we all feel about it, whoever we think are guilty, I cant help thinking that cricket lost something special.....

(he was 19 when it happened neon)

'he is just being made a scapegoat. Plenty more people at it in my opinion, who just haven't been caught yet.' -justtrue

Idiotic fool number 2. So him being made a scapegoat automatically equates for forgiveness? are you kidding me? So many others do it too so he should be forgiven? your a joke.

Just to add, a 5 year ban is amazingly low for this crime, yes crime. For those commenting on it being too high need to understand careers and TEST CRICKET RESULTS have been made to look questionable. Years of training and fighting have been messed about by these cheats. I dont care how young he was, hes old enough to know whats wrong and hes got a brain and mouth to tell the ICC what was going on. Because he kept it to himself he was part of it all, you've all fallen for the trap of him trying to gain your sympathy vote. It wouldnt suprise me if Butt did an interview and some of you 'fans' will be sympathetic to him too.

It's clear from all this that he was a young uneducated boy who was mislead by Butt.

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Did Amir mention anything about being pressured or bullied into why he played such an idiotic part in this whole affair.....it's no excuse, I just wondered if he mentioned anything....

Rabbit he made it clear that both Butt and the agent mislead him. He didn't want to do it but they deceived him.

18 years old.... what would you do?

He will probably make more money giving interviews and being on talk shows not to mention having a book ghost written, than he did playing cricket.

Hope that me be the life in UK but in Pakistan he will vanish and be yesterday's bad news.

Westerfield was only 21 but I don't remember seeing any great outpouring of sympathy from any on here for him. He was clearly not the 'sharpest knife in the draw' if he was showing his booty to a cricket colleague.

Hope there is a huge difference from 18 to 21. Bob Willis just said that he expects the ICC to reduce his ban eventually.

When does his ban actually end? At what date did it start?

Amir, the day he stopped playing cricket so will be 2 years in August.

I think the ban was imposed late in 2010 not in August. Those players were only on suspension at first.