IMRAN KHAN AS A CRICKTER
second-class degree in Politics and a third in
I mran Khan was born to Shaukat
Khanum (Burki) and Ikramullah Khan
Niazi, a civil engineer, in Lahore. A
quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew
up in a middle-class Niazi Pathan family
with four sisters. Settled in Punjab, Khan's
father descended from the Pashtun (Pathan)
Niazi Shermankhel tribe of Mianwali in
Punjab. Imran's Mother Shaukat Khanam
(Burki's) family includes successful hockey
players and cricketers such as Javed Burki
and Majid Khan. Khan was educated at
Aitchison College, the Cathedral School in
Lahore, and the Royal Grammar School
Worcester in England, where he excelled at
cricket. In 1972, he enrolled to study
Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble
College, Oxford, where he graduated with a
Economics
Imran Khan Niazi (born 25 November 1952)
is a former Pakistani cricketer who played
international cricket for two decades in the
late twentieth century and has been a
politician since the mid-1990s. Currently,
besides his political activism, Khan is also a
philanthropist and cricket commentator.
Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team
from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain
intermittently throughout 1982-1992. After
retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987
World Cup, he was called back to join the
team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his
teammates to Pakistan's first and only World
Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of
3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket,
making him one of eight world cricketers to
have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in
Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was
inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple
(securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in
75 Tests, the second fastest record
behind Ian Botham's 72. He is also
established 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
in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at
Faisalabad. Khan retired permanently
from cricket six months after his last
ODI, the historic 1992 World Cup final
against England at Melbourne,
Australia. He ended his career with 88
Test matches, 126 innings and scored
3807 runs at an average of 37.69.