(Cricket news) The runners-up from the ILT20 2023 season Desert Vipers have signed the former Pakistani pacer Mohammad Amir for the upcoming season of the ILT20.

Amir who no longer plays for his country team ,plays Franchise cricket across the world. His last competitive tournament was the Abu-Dhabi T10 league where he played for the New York strikers and also won the title. He took a total of 5 wickets at an Economy of 7 in the league. Amir also had a good stint in the Caribbean Premier League last September with the Jamaica Tallawahs.

Amir has played a total of 50 T20Is for Pakistan where he took 59 wickets at an average of 21.41. He has a total of 303 T20 wickets. He was also the leading wicket taker in the PSL last year alongside Imad Wasim.

“In signing Amir, we have lined up a player who knows both the format, and the conditions in the UAE, inside-out,” Vipers’ director of cricket Tom Moody said in a media release. “He was playing in Abu Dhabi as recently as last month, for the New York Strikers in the T10 tournament, under one of our coaches, Carl Crowe, with the Strikers going on to win that event in large part due to Amir’s contributions with the ball.

“The dressing room has some very talented and experienced players like Alex Hales, Colin Munro and Sheldon Cottrell, and some exciting new faces, and I am really looking forward to playing with my fellow Pakistanis Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan and Azam Khan,” said Amir.

The second season of the ILT20 is all set to kick-off on the 19th Of January in UAE.

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