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He was 79.<br \/>\nAn all-rounder who opened the innings and bowled googlies, Muhammad Ilyas\u2019 cricketing career spanned over six years (1964 -1969) during which he played 10 test matches for the country.<br \/>\nMuhammad Ilyas was shifted to home a few days back after being treated for liver cirrhosis at a private hospital in the city but he could not survive and passed away peacefully with his family at the bedside.<br \/>\nChairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi, legendary batsman Javed Miandad, Sadiq Muhammad, Kamran Akmal and former federal Secretary Sports Ashraf Khan expressed deep sorrow and grief over the sad demise of Muhammad Ilyas. They lauded the services of the former cricket and chief selector for Pakistan cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Former Pakistan Test cricketer, Chief selector Muhammad Ilyas passed away after protracted valiant fight against cancer here on Monday. He was 79. An all-rounder who opened the innings and bowled googlies, Muhammad Ilyas\u2019 cricketing career spanned over six years (1964 -1969) during which he played 10 test matches for the country. Muhammad Ilyas was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Test cricketer, chief selector Muhammad Ilyas passes away<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/test-cricketer-chief-selector-muhammad-ilyas-passes-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Test cricketer, chief selector Muhammad Ilyas passes away\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE Former Pakistan Test cricketer, Chief selector Muhammad Ilyas passed away after protracted valiant fight against cancer here on Monday. 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