Yawar Saeed, Pakistani cricket player & manager, Died at 80

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Mian Yawar Saeed was born on January 1935, and passed away October 21, 2015 from a brain tumour.

Yawar was a former Pakistani cricketer, who played 50 first-class matches for Somerset County Cricket Club and nine matches for a variety of teams based in Pakistan between 1953 and 1959.

A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he claimed 106 career wickets.

He was appointed Pakistani National Cricket Team manager, but after team’s England tour full of scandals and match fixing allegation on team players, and also after losing all three series against England he resigned from his post on September 27, 2010.

On 21 October 2015, Yawar Saeed died in Lahore aged 80.

Saeed was the father in law of Raza Rabbani.