The pacer Mohammad Asif has served his five-year ban from cricket after he was found guilty of spot fixing in England 2010.He is set to play for the Christiania Cricket Club in Oslo in Norway ahead of the upcoming domestic season in Pakistan, a report stated the other day.
“The last five years were the toughest for me and for my family but I am happy that that period is over now and I am back on the field,” Asif said earlier in January. “I have been training for the last five years.”
Although playing cricket in Norway is not the best way to plot a Test match comeback, the 33-year-old still believes he can make a return to international cricket. “My dream is to make a comeback and play for three to four years,” he said. “I want to play a good standard of cricket again – that’s my dream,” he added.
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Asif would have been in the prime of his career, but he made certain bad decisions in life, both on and off the field, which have landed him in Oslo. “One of my friends called me to come and play some cricket here,” he said. “There’s good weather for training – that’s why I came here,” he added.
Taking inspiration from Amir, Asif also yearns to wear green colours again. “Every human being can make mistakes. They’ve given us punishment and after the punishment everybody has a right to play. Cricket is my life,” he said.
“In my hands the ball will talk, not me,” he added.
Asif has so far played 23 Tests, 38 One-Day Internationals and 11 Twenty20 Internationals for Pakistan and has 165 wickets to his name across formats.
