Mohammad Amir may be about to encounter the disapproval of the Lord's crowd again this week but he will be able to count on the unqualified support of his Pakistan team-mates.

Wahab Riaz, a veteran like Amir of the controversial tour of 2010, spelled out that Misbah-ul-Haq's men are of one mind these days when it comes to supporting the brilliant left-armer on his return to the scene of his spot-fixing crime.

Amir was back at the Home of Cricket on Tuesday, for the first time since he was caught bowling no-balls to order for financial gain six years ago, and on Thursday he is set to resume his Test career on the hallowed turf.

Since he plotted with Mohammad Asif and then Pakistan captain Salman Butt in his last Lord's Test, Amir has like them served a prison sentence and a five-year global ban from all cricket.

But at the age of 24, he still has time on his side to become the world-beating bowler he promised to be before his teenage misdemeanour.

On that fateful weekend six years ago, as England wrapped up an innings victory, the Lord's crowd made its feelings clear on a near silent Sunday morning that the spot-fixing revelations were anything but welcome - and ditto, man-of-the-series Amir who was already implicated.

Wahab can speak from his experience then and now, and is adamant - contrary to some early suggestions when Amir began his comeback - that Misbah's team are united behind him.

"Everybody is supportive of Mohammad Amir - no one is reluctant," he said. "We all take him as our young brother - he is a part of our family."

Wahab is confident too that Amir has the strength of character these days to deal with the vexed circumstances, and perhaps come up with a game-changing performance.

"I think he will deal with all those things. He is ready to answer with his performance, and that is what counts.

"He is a very intelligent bowler and a very strong lad. I want him to take five wickets in this Test match to get his name back and to get his image back - which has been spoiled.

"I wish him all the best to win this Test for Pakistan."

Amir, and Pakistan, are determined to write a new and more edifying chapter.

"He is ready for everything," added Wahab. "If you make a mistake it doesn't mean...people will keep blaming you for that.

"It doesn't matter what people think - we are not here to answer what people think.

"We know things will come and go - but you hear it in one ear and you leave it with the other. You just concentrate on your cricket."

Misbah's leadership is helping Pakistan do that.

"Under the captaincy of Misbah, this team is much more united," said Wahab. "We have seen the hard times of Pakistan cricket.

"Pakistan are strong team, and can always give you a hard time."

Disgraced agent Mazhar Majeed was pictured in 2010 wearing a jacket borrowed from Wahab, while allegedly receiving a five-figure sum from an undercover reporter.

But the player was never concerned he too might become embroiled in the conspiracy.

"When you have done nothing wrong, no one can pinpoint you," he said. "I was not worried. Seeing a picture never tells you the story."

During the rancorous one-day international series which followed, however, Wahab then found himself in an altercation with England's Jonathan Trott in the Lord's nets.

His recollection is of an opponent venting frustration, under pressure.

"He was a bit rude - and when it comes to being rude, you can never beat the Pakistanis on it," said Wahab.

"We are the most rude when it comes to it. We are nice but if somebody is rude we won't [hold back].

"He was angry, he was not scoring runs ... it was a frustration he tried to take out on me.

"But it's gone now...live in the present. The past has gone."