PAKISTANIS EYE ENCORE IN ENGLAND

London, May 31: Mohammad Amir has had some of the greatest and undoubtedly the worst days of his cricket career in England — sometimes during the very same match.

But fresh from helping bowl Pakistan to a crushing nine-wicket win over England in the first Test at Lord’s, the left-arm paceman hopes he can enjoy the “best memory” with a series win in the second and final Test at Headingley, starting Friday.

Amir, who burst on the world scene as a teenager, got his name on the Lord’s honours board with a six-wicket haul against England in 2010.

But in the same game at the ‘home of cricket’, Amir was caught up in a spot-fixing scandal at the which led to a jail sentence and a five-year ban.

That same season, Amir took three wickets for 20 runs in 11 overs at Headingley during a sensational bowling display as an Australia side featuring Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey and Steven Smith were dismissed for just 88 in the first innings of the second ‘neutral’ Test.

The match, which Pakistan eventually won by three wickets, saw Amir stake a claim to ‘The Ball of the 21st Century’ when an all-butunplayable delivery that pitched on the middleand-leg stump of Mitchell Johnson seamed away late to clip the top of the left-hander’s off-stump.

Amir has rarely hit those Headingley heights in Test cricket since his return to the international stage two years ago.

Amir, however, took five wickets in the second innings.