Left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir, in a tweet, claimed that his retirement from Test cricket is the reason behind his exclusion from Pakistan’s Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the upcoming Bangladesh series.

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In a reply to a tweet of sports anchor Zainab Abbas about Amir’s omission, the left-arm pacer tweeted: “Reason test cricket.”

The 27-year-old soon deleted his tweet and vowed to make a strong comeback in the Pakistan’s T20I squad.

“No worries chill everyone i will come back stronger InshAllah,” wrote Amir.

However, Amir’s earlier statement didn’t go down well with his followers, as they criticised the left-arm pacer for deleting the tweet.

Many Pakistan greats have openly criticised Amir for retiring too early from Test cricket.

Last year, former legendary pacer Wasim Akram said that the Men in Green have been severely affected by the retirements of Amir in the longest format.

"What really happened was that two of our premium bowlers [Amir, Wahab] just retired from Test cricket," said Akram. “The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the whole country invested five years in Amir. He's 27 and should have come here and played a Test series and then maybe next year retired. That's the problem Pakistan had."

“If I was the PCB, I wouldn't have given him a central contract because he retired a month ago,” he added.