Imran Khan factfile
Born: Lahore, 25.11.1952
88 Tests, 362 wickets, best bowling 8-58, 3,807 runs, highest score 136
175 ODIs, 182 wickets, best bowling 6-14, 3,709 runs, highest score 102no
First-class record: 1,287 wickets, 17,771 runs
Happy Birthday Imran Bhai !
Happy Birthday Khan Sahib :)
50 sala :p
I don't know this is true but does he holds the record of oldest player to retire from international cricket in recent times (meaning the last 3 decades)
If he is 50 now, that means he was around 40 when he retired.
I watched and recorded his interview, it was on Prime TV "An Evening With A Star". Man that was awesome watching Khan sahib after such a long time talking about cricket.
Khan sahib talked about when he retired and Gen. Zia sahib asked him on national TV to comeback. Khan sahib was talking about the reason he came back was 1. Zia sahib asked him to comeback and 2nd Aussies had just canceled their tour of Windies and they have invited PAK. At that time no one wanted to tour Windies cuz they were the best and everyon one was scared of touring WI. Khan sahib mentioned if PAK had won that series he would have retired after that series. It was a very interesting interview.
They showed few (only few :( ) clips of Khan sahib bowling and few of Khan sahib famous sixes in sharjah or maybe that was in India when he hit Bishan Bedi or maybe Chetan Sharam out of the ground, don't remember who was the bowler. Anyway its really something to watch and its on my ftp server PM me if you wnat it, I think the whole interview is about 200 MB in size.
Happy Birthday from me to Imran Khan
hez the best cricketer and all-rounder ive ever seen playin in cricket!
Imran Khan…hunkarooni?! 
Pakistan Can Win World Cup: Imran
KARACHI: Pakistan’s former captain and cricket icon Imran Khan celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday expressing the confidence that the Pakistan team would be able to win the 2003 World Cup in South Africa.
Imran now an elected member of parliament was born on 25-11-1952 and on Monday completed another half century without having lost any of his popularity which reached its nadir when he captained Pakistan to the 1992 World Cup in Australia.
Imran said although his time was now devoted to his political career, yet he had not lost touch with cricket, the sport that gave him so much fame. “I don’t see much future for myself in cricket except for writing columns, and doing commentary in next year’s World Cup,” he added. But he made it clear he remained passionate about the game and specially the performances of the senior team, which he captained from 1982 to 92 with success.
Suave, erudite and monstrously talented, Imran is credited with giving cricket in the subcontinent real sex appeal in the 1970s and 1980s. 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) who dominated Test cricket in the 1980s.
And whereas Botham declined steadily, Imran just got better and better: in his last ten years of international cricket he played 51 Tests, averaging a sensational 50 with the bat and 19 with the ball.
During his tenure as captain, he led Pakistan to first ever series win in England and India and fought some memorable battles with West Indies - Pakistan drew three series with them at a time when everybody else was being bounced out of sight.
Having represented Pakistan in 88 Tests (with 48 as captain) and 175 ODI’s, Imran described his most memorable cricket moment as winning the 92’ World Cup. “The two high points in my life are winning the 1992 World Cup for Pakistan and the opening of Shaukat Khanum Hospital in my mother’s memory,” :k: he said.
“Winning the World Cup was special because we came from behind to achieve the impossible and showed the world that we could play as a unified team.” “Playing for Pakistan was a great pleasure and I am grateful to Almighty that He gave me so much fame and respect. Life has been very kind to me and I always look ahead and see tremendous possibilities for myself in my new field-politics,” he added. Not surprisingly the first congratulatory messages for Imran on his 50th birthday came from his proteges Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who called him up from Harare.
There is no doubt he is the greatest all rounder ever to grace international cricket in both forms of the game.
When a guy averages 19 with the ball and 50 with the bat, it is telling you something.
No Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Jacques Kallis can't ever walk to walk with Imran.
Imran kHan was the best and will always be .he is proud of Pakistani cricket.
Imran is a God, only Sobers can compare with him in class. He is in my view the best allround cricketer ever, fabulous.
Imran is the best
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. He is one of the best all rounder and an excellent captain.
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*Originally posted by UMAIR316: *
There is no doubt he is the greatest all rounder ever to grace international cricket in both forms of the game.
When a guy averages 19 with the ball and 50 with the bat, it is telling you something.
No Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Jacques Kallis can't ever walk to walk with Imran.
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what is 19 and 50 here?
Happy B-Day
Those are his Test averages in bowling and batting respectively in his last ten years of cricket (as written in the article posted by P-Tiger).
Yup..Imran Khan the great, he won Pakistan the Cricket Worldcup, now we hope that he will eventually succeed in winning us the real Worldcup: making Pakistan a Muslim super power, if he ever becomes Pakistan’s PM (inshAllah). :k:
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Top man :k: