Mohammad Amir takes part in a fielding drill with his BPL side Chittagong VIkings. — AFP As Amir struggles to rebuild trust, the BPL faces a similar challenge after its 2013 edition was blighted by a scandal involving players and a team owner.
Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful, New Zealander Lou Vincent and Sri Lankan Kaushal Lokuarachchi were handed lengthy bans.
And Shihab Jishan Chowdhury was also convicted of trying to fix the outcome of a match involving his Dhaka Gladiators team.
An embarrassed Bangladesh Cricket Board cancelled last year's edition but now believes its house is in order.
Chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said the BCB always had “zero tolerance” of corruption but felt compelled to do more after 2013.
It now has its own anti-corruption unit and runs an extensive education programme for players which includes addresses by police.
“A lot of things happened because of a lack of education, players not being aware of the consequences, not only for themselves but for the nation as a whole,” Chowdury told AFP.
'Soft targets' Sayeed Uzzaman, the journalist who broke the scandal, said the BCB deserved praise for bringing crooks to justice but feared the game remained vulnerable.
“The players are soft targets,” said Uzzaman, of Dhaka's Kaler Kantho daily.
“The bookies offer them a thousand times more (than they are paid by their teams).”
While Amir is back playing in front of packed crowds, Ashraful keeps fit with nets in his backyard, still dreaming of an eventual international recall.
Neighbours are happy to bowl at the 31-year-old who set the record for the youngest player to hit a Test century but Ashraful is full of regrets.
“I've lost almost everything I worked for ... I hope young cricketers will look at me and learn a lesson,” the one-time golden boy told AFP.
The local underworld was thought to have got its hooks into Ashraful long before he was caught and made a tearful confession.
Now he urges players against falling into the same trap.
“My advice to any young cricketer would be say, very clearly, no.”
'Just say no' His view is echoed by Sangakkara, Sri Lanka's former captain who recently retired from international cricket.
“It's very simple advice that I have for anyone, it's basically just say no and once you've said no you report every single approach,” he told AFP while training for his BPL team, the Dhaka Dynamites.
“It's the responsibility of players as well to ensure the game stays clean.