'No hard feelings, but ban fixers' says Broad

England seam bowler Stuart Broad says he has "no hard feelings" against fast bowler Mohammad Amir, but is still bitter his sole Test century is tainted by the Pakistani's involvement in match-fixing.

Amir and Mohammad Asif bowled no balls to order under instructions from captain Salman Butt in Pakistan's 2010 Lord's Test against England. Broad and Jonathan Trott had put on 332 for the eighth wicket as England's No.9 scored 169 to earn a spot on the famous honours boards.

"Of course it annoys me that that game will always be connected with what went on. Lord's is the home of cricket. It's a wonderful place to play and that Test match will always be remembered for the wrong reasons," Broad told the Mail on Sunday.

"It was my best-ever innings, my only Test century and coming in tough circumstances as well. It was a good battle and I'll never forget the feeling I got running through for that hundred.

"From what we know, the three Pakistan players weren't actually fixing the game as a whole — a no-ball doesn't affect if I hit a four or not — so I can still look back with a lot of pride on scoring that hundred. But of course it was tarnished by what happened."

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Broad said he was happy enough to play against Amir, with Pakistan and England set to meet at Lord's against in the first Test on July 14, but he wanted lifetime bans for match-fixers in future.

"In Amir's case I certainly have no hard feelings about playing against him again," said Broad.

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"What he did was wrong but he was extremely young and maybe not aware of the consequences. The reality is he's back in the game and has served his time.

"I have a little bit of sympathy for Amir but once you've received money to do something illegal that is always a bad thing. We are very well-educated by the ICC's anti-corruption unit, but at 18 years old you are potentially more vulnerable and susceptible to your elders.

"I am strongly of the view that one of the only ways we will ever expel this awful (match-fixing) disease from our game is to hand out lifetime bans for any kind of fixing. 

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"As an 18-year-old if you know the punishment is a lifetime ban from anything to do with cricket — playing, coaching, anything — that should be it. It would be a very scary thought."

Broad detailed how the one-day series that followed the no-ball bombshell in the final Test in 2010 was "vicious" with palpable tension between the teams.

"The one-day series after that was ugly, there was so much going on it became really vicious," said Broad.

"We had Ijaz Butt saying we were the cheats. Trotty (Jonathan Trott) and Wahab Riaz had a fight. 

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"It hardly caused a ripple but Shoaib Akhtar was pictured scratching the ball with his boot in the final game. Nothing positive came out of the summer.

"Three of their players had been implicated but there were stories it was going to happen in the one-day series and allegations they'd fixed a game against Australia in Sydney. 

"There was a never-ending cycle of news coming through and you had to work really hard to put it out of your mind and remain as professional as possible."

The England fast bowler said he did not expect any lingering tensions from 2010 to resurface in the current series.