Bashir was 38 years old and had been suffering from stomach cancer for the last three years.
He is survived by a widow and a five-year-old son Dawood. Bashir, who did not represent Pakistan, however, played 201 first-class matches and nine T20 matches as a right-handed batsman and bowler.
He scored 9,006 runs – including 16 centuries and 46 half-centuries – and claimed 37 wickets in a first-class career spanning from 1989 to 2006.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st, 2010.
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