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Imran is not only known for his performances on the field but off the field as well. Labelled by some as an international playboy, Imran has had many high profile girlfriends both in England and Australia as well as the Sub-continent. Voted as the Sexiest Man of The Year in Australia, Imran has been linked to Susannah Costantine, ex-supermodel Marie Helving, artist Emma Sargeant and [[Bollywood]] film star [[Zeenat Aman]].

 

Imran made his [[Test cricket|Test]] debut against [[England]] at [[Birmingham]] in [[1971]] at the age of 18. His performance was unimpressive as his wayward medium pace bowling proved short of what was required at that level. By the end of the series, the senior cricketers in the team had written him off as a Test-standard cricketer.

 

Imran didn't return to [[Pakistan]] after the series and instead joined the [[Royal Grammar School Worcester]]. There was little progress in his career over the next two years because he struggled to get into the Worcestershire county team and the veterans of the team such as [[Glenn Turner]] and [[Norman Gifford]] encouraged him to concentrate on his batting as they felt that he did not have the potential of a [[fast bowler]].

 

عمران خان خپل لومري امتحاني لوبه په كال نوولسووه يواويا كي په اتلس كلني كي د انكلستان خلاف په برمنكهم كي پيل كره

 

Imran returned to the Pakistan cricket team briefly in 1974, but didn't do well enough to become a regular in the team. It was not until late in 1976, following a successful season with his county club, Worcestershire, that he was picked again for the national squad. His opponents were [[New Zealand]], which included two of his former teammates from Worcestershire, [[John Parker]] and [[Glenn Turner]]. Imran picked them out for some hostile bowling, to prove to them that they were incorrect in their earlier assessment of his potential as a [[fast bowler]].

 

As the 1980s progressed, he began to [[reverse swing]] the old ball significantly, an art that was known to very few bowlers at that time. This was a skill that he passed on to his successors, [[Wasim Akram]] and [[Waqar Younis]], at the end of the decade.

 

Imran took over the captaincy of the [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]] team from [[Javed Miandad]] in early 1982. Many who thought that this would adversely affect his cricket as had happened to [[Ian Botham]], were sceptical about this move. But as was the case when he captained [[Oxford University]], the extra responsibility helped him take his performances to a higher level.

 

Imran was also notable for being the first cricketer to argue fervently in favor of neutral umpires. He led the initiative by asking for neutral umpires for the home series against [[West Indies]] in 1986-87 and 1990-91, as well as the home series against India in 1989-90.

 

Imran's ultimate moment of glory as a captain and cricketer came at the end of his career, when he led Pakistan to victory in the [[cricket World Cup]] 1992. The highlight of this win was the fact that [[Pakistan]] recovered from a very poor start, thanks largely to some young players in their team who had barely been heard of prior to the World Cup.

 

A combination of a shoulder injury that he carried through the tournament as well as differences with some senior members over the fact that many of the prizes (or rewards) were being garnered by Imran's charity hospital led to his retirement after the World Cup.

 

Since retiring from Pakistani Test cricket, Khan has been devoting most of his time to [[Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre]], a state-of-the-art charitable cancer hospital he established in Lahore using donations.

 

In [[1995]], he married [[Jemima Goldsmith|Jemima]] (aka Haiqa) Khan who is the daughter of the late British billionaire [[Sir James Goldsmith]]. [[Jemima Khan]] embraced [[Islam]] before she married Khan. They announced their divorce on [[22 June]] [[2004]]. They still visit each other with the children.

 

Imran Khan is known for making a few politically charged statements that have raised eyebrows even when he was the captain of the Pakistan team and later in his role as a politician. The first of these statements came during an India Pakistan match in [[Sharjah]] where Imran remarked, "Let's settle the Kashmir issue over the cricket match". Though Imran claimed that he had made that statement only casually, few were impressed by this apparent insensitivity to the Kashmir problem.

 

Later as leader of his party in 2005, led a protest rally against the US led coalition which had desecrated the [[Koran]] and made statements denouncing the Musharraf-Bush coalition.

 

* Khan, Imran, ''All Round View'', 1988.

* Tennant, Ivor, ''Imran Khan'', 1994.

* [http://content.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/40560.html CricInfo Player Profile : Imran Khan]

 

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