Hafeez won't play with Amir

Senior Pakistan batsman Mohammad Hafeez on Saturday became the first cricketer to refuse to play alongside Mohammad Amir.

The tainted but cleared paceman will feature for Chittagong Vikings in the Bangladesh premier league starting from Wednesday -- a team Hafeez said also asked him to join.

"I was approached by my agent to play for the Chittagong team but when I knew that Amir was also in that team so I refused it point blank," Hafeez told AFP.

"I have no personal issues with Amir or Chittagong, it's my personal opinion that I can't share the dressing room with someone who hurt my country's integrity."

Hafeez added: "If any other team makes me an offer then I will play the league and I have no problems facing Amir as I have played against him in the domestic matches but can't be in the same team," said Hafeez, a former Pakistan Twenty20 captain.

"We [Pakistan]had to suffer the taunts of the fans and after 2010 every act, every defeat and every mistake of ours was seen as suspicious, so we overcame that tough time and will not allow it to happen again."

Asked what if Amir is included in the Pakistan team again, Hafeez said: "We will look at it when it happens, its premature to say anything now."

Reportedly Hafeez had an lucrative offer of around ten million Pakistani rupees to play but he turned it down.