LAHORE-October 22, 2015: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Shaharyar M. Khan and Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad have offered their heartfelt condolences over passing away of Yawar Saeed, former manager of Team Pakistan several times over and a prominent cricket administrator who had served PCB in many a capacity over the years.
For the last many months, Yawar Saeed was undergoing treatment for brain tumour.
In a message to his family, Chairman PCB said: Yawar Saeed was an outstanding cricket administrator, and he will always be remembered as a selfless servant of Pakistan cricket.
At this hour of grief, our hearts are with Yawar's family.
Yawar Saeed hailed from a cricketing family of note in Lahore. His father Mian Mohammad Saeed led Pakistan in its first-ever unofficial Test against the West Indies in 1948. Late Fazal Mahmood, Yawar Saeed's bother-in-law, was Pakistan's first fast bowling great.
Yawar Saeed served as the manager of Pakistan team on its various assignments; he was director of Pakistan's World Cup Committee that organized the fourth edition of the World Cup in 1987 when it was moved to the sub-continent from England for the first time ever.
He also had a stint as the Board's director in the early 2000s.
In a first-class career spanning six years (1953 to 1958-59), Yawar had featured in 59 games, in 50 of these representing English county Somerset.
The PCB's top tier management and its entire staff pray to the Almighty to bestow the departed soul with eternal peace and grant the family and the dear ones the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss, said the PCB spokesman.
