Mohammad Amir

[nat]

Sounds like someone at the Home Office has got some moral fibre unlike the club. Maybe just maybe the club will learn a lesson.

[honkytonk]

Served his time, let him play.  If he was meant to never play again should have been banned for life.  He wasnt.  Young man makes a mistake, not the first, wont be the last.

[squarelegumpire]

And by people he had been advised to look up to, and take advice from.

[Niel01]

A bit too easy for the Club to effectively place the responsibility for Amir's "no Visa" with the Home Office and Amir's representatives. They should have been on top of the job from Day 1. The Club sold tickets ,in part, promoting Amir as a major attraction in 8 games - now wonder whether he will actually appear in any ?

[ytsejam1]

A bit too easy for the Club to effectively place the responsibility for Amir's "no Visa" with the Home Office and Amir's representatives. They should have been on top of the job from Day 1. The Club sold tickets ,in part, promoting Amir as a major attraction in 8 games - now wonder whether he will actually appear in any ?

Spot on. How did Pakistan get permission for him to play in the World Cup in time, especially when you consider a few weeks before it started, he wasn’t even in their squad? The club has known about him playing for months and should have been on top of this and made sure he was available from the very first match.
I hope they are going to be a bit more professional when it comes to finding an overseas player replacement for Siddle?!

[squarelegumpire]

A bit too easy for the Club to effectively place the responsibility for Amir's "no Visa" with the Home Office and Amir's representatives. They should have been on top of the job from Day 1. The Club sold tickets ,in part, promoting Amir as a major attraction in 8 games - now wonder whether he will actually appear in any ?

To be fair, the Home Office has form for cocking up visa applications. And it won't get any better now.

[Perov]

Are we sure it is the fault of the Home Office, and not our Chief Executive?

[Andy]

Perhaps some one at Chelmsford had got wind of MA getting a little too close to certain ‘undesirable’ characters???  We’ll see if anything comes to light in the next few weeks.

[Captain Slaphead]

Perhaps some one at Chelmsford had got wind of MA getting a little too close to certain ‘undesirable’ characters??? 

Maybe.
But if so, surely a Chief Exec with any gonads would come out & say "We've decided to cancel his contract", not hide behind some mealy-mouthed nonsense about vague & unspecified 'visa issues'?

[Andy]

Perhaps some one at Chelmsford had got wind of MA getting a little too close to certain ‘undesirable’ characters??? 

Maybe.
But if so, surely a Chief Exec with any gonads would come out & say "We've decided to cancel his contract", not hide behind some mealy-mouthed nonsense about vague & unspecified 'visa issues'?

I think you’ve just answered your own question?

Mind you, after the Kaneria affair I would tread very carefully...

[Can the Can]

I might be completely wrong but my uninformed speculative guess is that this visa issue is a load of cobblers, a smokescreen dreamt up because he didn't want to play against Middlesex and Glos because of his family commitments.  I think he was at a wedding and just fancied some extra time off.

I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong.

[JasonP]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27286021/mohammad-amir-cleared-essex-stint-visa-application-approved

Hopefully back on Thursday, though nothing from Essex as I far as I know yet.