Cricket: Aamer Bashir passes away
Former Pakistan first-class cricketer Aamer Bashir passes away in Multan after losing his battle to cancer.
Former Pakistan first-class cricketer Aamer Bashir passed away yesterday in Multan after losing his battle to cancer.
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.
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.