Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir's return to the international scene on the New Zealand tour hasn't come without the odd hiccup.

OPINION: There should be little sympathy for disgraced cricketer Mohammad Amir as he faces the reality of being a crowd target.

The left-arm fast bowler is reportedly shaken after copping a bit of abuse from the Basin Reserve crowd.

Tough luck Amir, you shook the entire cricket world with your spot-fixing shame.

Yes, you've served your time. But in many people's eyes, including some of your team-mates, you are lucky to be back in international cricket.

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Considering you're a convicted criminal, you're also lucky to be touring New Zealand.

The consequences of your actions will live longer with many fans than the five-year ban handed down to you by the game's bosses, and that's something you must accept.

Worse taunts undoubtedly lie in wait in more hostile environments than New Zealand.

Brace yourself for a return to the scene of your crime in England later this year. The Barmy Army will surely have a ditty or two waiting in your honour. Less humorous English fans may have something even more spicy in store.

Worse taunts will probably come from opposition players where sledges in the heat of battle will hit harder than having money waved at you by sections of the crowd.

It's a situation you've created and must surely have envisaged unfolding as you took your first brave steps back into the game you blackened and scarred.

If not, your naivety is perhaps deeper than the time you allowed yourself to fall prey to to the money men behind the spot-fixing.

Other cricketers have endured worse than you.

Take Greg Chappell having a bowling ball roll out from the Eden Park terraces in a not very subtle mimic of the infamous 1981 under-arm incident and a few choice banners haunt him at every Kiwi location.

Take a look at other sports Amir, and watch how the likes of Australian rugby player Quade Cooper are taunted for some dodgy tactics against Richie McCaw, a deed far less dastardly than personal, greedy actions altering the course of an international match.

And don't expect the airing of the Wellington incident to ease things moving forward.

A betting man would probably lay money on more attention being aired at Amir in Napier on Thursday and Auckland on Sunday.

That's the nature of sport. You reap what you sow.

Time can be a healer but it can also be unforgiving.

It's up to you Amir to try to overcome the past. But that won't happen overnight.