T20 World Cup: Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir, once tipped to be better than Wasim Akram, now making another comeback at 32

Asif Bajwa remembers the chilling November evening in 2011 when he heard those fateful words: his ward, Mohammad Amir was going to jail. Pakistan cricket’s golden boy had crossed the sacrosanct line – at the home of cricket, no less – and was now facing the repercussions. But despite the three months in prison and a five-year ban from the sport, which many in Pakistan wished to last a lifetime, Amir’s coach and mentor since childhood wasn’t hesitant in proclaiming, “He will be back.”