"I had missed five best years of my life and had I continued playing cricket, everyone knows where I would have been standing today (in international cricket)," he said. The other two culprits in the same offence " Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif " are still waiting for their returns to international cricket despite their five-year bans being lifted last year. "To be honest I never thought about my comeback and I feel seriously lucky to play test cricket again," Amir told Associated Press as he prepared to leave for England on Saturday. "I might have made my comeback months ago but test cricket is what I was looking forward to and this is my real comeback." ISLAMABAD (AP) " Fast bowler Mohammad Amir thinks he's lucky to re-don the Pakistan green cap.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 18, 2016 05:15 UTC