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Condolence Former Test cricketer Azmat Rana passes away

LAHORE-May 30, 2015: Chairman PCB Shaharyar Mohammad Khan and Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad have offered their heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of former Test cricketer Azmat Rana.

Azmat passed away last night from cardiac arrest.

In a message to his family, Chairman PCB said: "I am deeply saddened at Azmat’s passing away.”

“Everyone at PCB and the cricketing fraternity in this country share in your grief”, said PCB COO Subhan Ahmad in a message to Shafqat Rana and Sultan Rana.

Azmat was scion of the famous Rana family of Lahore, most of whom played cricket at various levels with great distinction. Brother of former Test cricketer Shafqat Rana, former first class cricketer Sultan Rana and the late Test umpire Shakoor Rana, Mansoor Rana is Azmat’s nephew.

"The PCB's upper tier management and its entire staff pray to 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.