Saturday 5 March 2016

Imran Khan The Great Pakistani Crickter

Imran Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) better known as Imran Khan is a Pakistani former cricketer and cricket commentator.Khan played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century.
Khan was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, leading his country to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and serving as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup in 1988, owing to popular demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan Zia ul Haq to lead the team once again. At the age of 39, Khan led his team to Pakistan's first and only One Day World Cup victory in 1992. With 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, he is one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches in Test matches.On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Imran was at the heart of shaping modern-day Pakistan cricket, and all we love about the team and their play can be traced back to him.At his peak, Imran the bowler was easily among the best in the world, while his skillful batting and inspirational captaincy made him the complete package.
He also made himself into an all rounder worth a place for his batting alone, and captained Pakistan as well as anyone, rounding off his career with the 1992 World Cup. . His averages (37 with the bat, 22 with the ball) put him at the top of the quartet of allrounders (Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev being the others).

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