And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
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Birth: | 1952 |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Profession: | Cricketer, Philanthropist, Politician |
Imran Khan was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. He is a Pakistani politician, former cricketer and philanthropist who leads the Pakistan Movement of Justice and serves as a member of the National Assembly. He educated at Aitchison, Worcester and later at the Keble College, Oxford. He started playing cricket at the age of 13. After graduating from Oxford, he joined Pakistan's national cricket team in 1976, and played until 1992. He also served as the team's captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. He, notably, led Pakistan to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2010. In 1991, he launched a fundraising campaign to set up a cancer hospital in memory of his mother. He raised $ 25 million to set up the first hospital in Lahore in 1994, and later in 2015 a second hospital in Peshawar. He served as the chancellor of Bradford University from 2005-2014.
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