Imran Khan is a well known and legendary cricketing all rounder of Pakistan. He has the honor to play international cricket for two decades for Pakistan in the late twentieth century and, after retiring, entered politics. Besides his political career, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, chancellor of the University of Bradford and founding chairman of the Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Hospital. He also laid the foundation of Namal College, in the backward city of Mianwali in 2008 where the students get the degree from Bradford University of London.
He was the leading and most successful cricket captain, leading his country to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani national cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and serving as its captain time and again throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup in 1988, because of the popular demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan Zia ul Haq to lead the national team once again. At the age of 39, Khan led his team to Pakistan's first and only One Day World Cup achievement in 1992. He got 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, he is one of those fine eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. He earned the honor to be included into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Imran Khan made first-class cricket debut at the age of sixteen in Lahore. Khan made his test cricket debut against England team in 1971 in the city of Birmingham. Three years later, he debuted in the One Day International (ODI) match against the same England team at Nottingham for the Prudential Trophy. After being graduated from Oxford and having finished his tenure at Worcestershire, he returned to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent place in his native national team from the 1976–1977 season, in which they faced New Zealand and Australia.
Following the series of Australia, he toured the West Indies, where Tony Greig signed him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. His credentials as a fast bowler started to become established when he finished at third position at 139.7 km/h in a fast bowling contest at Perth in 1978, behind Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding, but leading Dennis Lillee, Garth Le
Roux and Andy Roberts.
As a fast bowler, Khan reached the peak in 1982. In 9 Tests, he secured 62 wickets at 13.29 each, the lowest average of any bowler in Test history.
Imran Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple record (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the second fastest record behind Ian Botham's 72. He is also recognized as having the second highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a Test batsman playing at position 6 of the batting order. He played his last Test match for Pakistan cricket team in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Imran Khan retired permanently from cricket six months after his last ODI, the historic and memorable 1992 World Cup final against England in Melbourne, Australia.
He completed his career with 88 Test matches, 126 innings and scored 3807 runs at an average of 37.69, having six centuries and 18 fifties. His highest score was 136 runs. As a bowler, he secured 362 wickets in Test cricket, which enabled him to stand as the first Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to get this credit. In ODIs, he participated in 175 matches and scored 3709 runs at an average of 33.41. His highest score in an ODI remains 102 not out. His best ODI bowling figure is documented at 6 wickets for 14 runs.
In April 1996, He founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ("Movement for Justice") as a political party and Khan became its chairman. He represented his native city Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007, he was again elected on 11 May 2013, on the same seat while his party gained 35 seats in the National Assembly. He has raised allegations on the general elections of 2013 as heavily rigged of which he gained the support of all the parties and he filed the cases against the winning candidates in Election Tribunals and courts but to this date no outcome has come out of the cases and he has started the agitation against the government by protesting and bringing his supporters on the roads and by a four months prolonged Dharna (Sit-in) in the famous D-Chowk , (D-Square) of the capital Islamabad.
Global Post has recorded him as third in a list of nine world leaders of 2012 and recognized Khan as the face of the anti-drone movement in Pakistan. According to the Asia Society, Khan was voted as Asia’s Person of the Year 2012. As the Pew Research Center, in 2012 a majority of Pakistani public offered a favorable opinion of Khan. The survey also has revealed Khan's fame among youth.
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