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Imran Khan
Wisden CricInfo staff - June 27, 2001

Wisden overview
Few would dispute that Imran was the finest cricketer Pakistan has produced, or the biggest heart-throb. As such he and TV completed the popularisation of the game in his country which Hanif Mohammad and the radio had begun. Thousands, if not millions, who had never dreamt of bowling fast on heartless baked mud suddenly wanted to emulate Imran and his lithe bounding run, his leap and his reverse-swinging yorker. He also made himself into an allrounder worth a place for his batting alone, and captained Pakistan as well as anyone, rounding off his career with the 1992 World Cup. He played hardly any domestic cricket in Pakistan: instead he just flew in for home series from Worcestershire or Sussex, or rather from the more fashionable London salons. His subsequent career as a politician has yet to take off as his fast bowling did. Scyld Berry

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