Previous Pakistan Cricket Team Captain Saeed Ahmed passes on at 86

Saeed Ahmed, the former Pakistan captain and allrounder, has died in Lahore at the age of 86 after a brief illness. Saeed, who played 41 Test matches between 1958 and 1973, captained the side briefly, for three drawn Test matches against England in 1969, replacing Hanif Mohammad. He scored 2991 Test runs, including five Test centuries, three of which came against India. A capable offspinner, he also took 22 Test wickets. Saeed was brought into the world in Jalandhar in 1937 in what was then English India - presently a piece of Indian Punjab. He made his presentation at 20 years old against West Indies in the popular attracted Test Bridgetown, where Hanif Mohammad batted for 970 minutes to score 337. Saeed struck up a 154-run organization with Mohammad for the third wicket, scoring 65 as West Indies bowled 319 overs before the game was eventually canceled. He immediately made a name for his effortlessness and simple power, especially while driving the ball, and exhibited in a flash that he had a place at the most significant level. He completed his profession with a batting normal of 40.01, practically indistinguishable from his five star normal of 40.02. He later scored his first of five Test hundreds - 150 - in Georgetown against an assault that included Roy Gilchrist, Spear Gibbs and Garry Sobers, however West Indies won that Test by eight wickets. Pakistan always lost a Test he scored 100 in, however playing at all productive time of Pakistan's Test history might have been an element there. He was a staple in the Pakistan side for the vast majority of his profession, however it finished dishonorably. Subsequent to getting into a disagreement with Dennis Lillee on Pakistan's 1972 visit through Australia, he managed himself out of the third Test refering to a back physical issue. The board accepted he was faking it, and sent him home for discipline; he could at no point ever play for Pakistan in the future. "The PCB is disheartened over the death of one of our previous Test skipper and communicates profound sympathies to the group of Saeed Ahmed," PCB executive Mohsin Naqvi said. "He served Pakistan with his entire being and the PCB respects his record and administrations for the Test group." After retirement, Saeed pulled back from cricket, at absolutely no point ever working in the game in the future. He lived without help from anyone else in Lahore for a long time, carrying on with an isolated existence with few companions or family for organization, while his decaying wellbeing required rehashed medical clinic visits. He was taken to medical clinic around early afternoon on Wednesday, and passed on there not long after. He is made due by two children, a girl, and stepbrother Younis Ahmed, who played four Tests for Pakistan.