On Saturday, there was double joy for this 17-year-old left-arm fast medium bowler, who not only took the wicket of great Sachin Tendulkar but his team also registered victory against the arch-rivels India.
Aamer found the perfect line outside the off stump as Tendulkar edged a delivery into Kamran Akmal's gloves and the youngster simply went wild.
"He has learnt that if you want to hurt the opposition then you must target their main man. So far he has been able to deliver every time," said Muddassar Nazar, the former director of PCB's Lahore-based National Cricket Academy, where he worked with the bowler.
"During the Twenty20 also, he went all out to dismiss both Tillakaratne Dilshan and Sanath Jayasuriya. So, I wasn't surprised to see him claim the wicket of Sachin."
"Aamer has always been very confident. Even at the age of 15, he was as confident.
"However, it is too early to judge whether he would be able to fill in for Shoaib Akhtar. He certainly does not have Shoaib's pace (although he is touching 90 miles an hour now) but he can surely match him for talent. But he will have to maintain a strict training regime,
"I feel that if he can remain fit then he can take more wickets than Shoaib," added Nazar, who is currently based in Dubai, where he work as a coach for the ICC's Global Cricket Academy.
Aamer's talent was first spotted by former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram, who picked him up as a special talent at a pace camp in Lahore in May 2007.
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