pakistani cricket players: Imran Khan

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Imran Khan Biography

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Imran Khan Niazi

عمران خان نیازی

Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Incumbent

Assumed office

25 April 1996

President Javed Hashmi

Vice President Ejaz Chaudhary

Hamid Khan

Asad Umar

Deputy Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan NA-71 Mianwali

In office

November 2002 – October 2007

Succeeded by Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan

Personal details

Born (1952-11-25) 25 November 1952 (age 59)

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Spouse(s) Jemima Khan (1995–2004)

Children Sulaiman Khan

Qasim Khan

Residence Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Alma mater Keble College, Oxford

Occupation Politician

Philanthropist

Cricketer

Religion Islam

Website PTI

Imran Khan Niazi HI, PP, ASA, RCPE (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born November 25, 1952) is a Pakistani politician, statesman and former cricketer, he has played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founding Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

He was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, and played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992.[1] After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, in 1988 due to popular public demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan to lead the team once again. 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.[2] On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[3]

In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman of a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice).[4] He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007.[5] Foreign Policy magazine has described him as "Pakistan's Ron Paul".[6] Through worldwide fundraising, he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in 1996 and Mianwali's Namal College in 2008.

Imran Khan