Researching Imran Khan

Khan was born to a Pashtun family in Lahore in 1952, and graduated from Keble College, Oxford in 1975. He began his international cricket career at age 18, in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992, and won the Cricket World Cup, in what is Pakistan's first and only victory in the competition. Considered one of cricket's greatest ever all-rounders, Khan registered 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

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 a hospital in Lahore in 1994, and set up a second hospital in Peshawar in 2015. Khan then continued his philanthropic efforts, expanding the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital to also include a research centre, and founded Namal College in 2008. Khan also served as the chancellor of the University of Bradford between 2005 and 2014, and was the recipient of an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012.

Khan founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996, and serves as the party's chairman. By winning a seat in the National Assembly in 2002, he served as an opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. PTI boycotted the 2008 general election. In the subsequent election PTI became the second-largest party by popular vote. In regional politics, PTI led a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2013, with Khan delegating this leadership to Mahmood Khan after being elected as Prime Minister in 2018.

As Prime Minister, Khan addressed a balance of payments crisis with a bailout from the International Monetary Fund. He also presided over a shrinking current account deficit and limited defence spending to curtail the fiscal deficit. Eventually, Pakistan's economy began to recover under Khan's premiership. Khan also launched an anti-corruption campaign, but was criticised by political opponents for alleged targeting. In other domestic policy, Khan pushed for an increase in renewable energy production and halted non-renewable energy sources from future construction working toward an aim to make Pakistan mostly renewable by 2030. He also initiated reforestation and expansion of national parks. He enacted policy which increased tax collection and investment. Khan's government also instituted reforms to education and healthcare on a national and regional level respectively. Further reforms were made to Pakistan's social safety net. In foreign policy, he dealt with border skirmishes against India, supported the Afghan peace process, and strengthened relations with China, Russia and the United States.

Khan made his adult acting debut in 2008 with the romantic comedy Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, which was a critical and commercial success. His performance in the film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. After the failure of his next two films, Khan was written off by the media, calling him a "one film wonder". He then starred in a number of commercially successful films like I Hate Luv Storys (2010), Delhi Belly (2011), Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011) and Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012), which is his last commercially successful film. It was followed by a series of box-office flops.

Apart from acting in films, Khan is a social activist, and has written columns for the Hindustan Times. He is a supporter of PETA, having appeared in events organised for the group. He married Avantika Malik in January 2011, after a ten-year relationship.

He has won a total of 28 International medals and 66 National medals in Men's 10m Air Rifle and Men's 50m 3 Position and holds a national record in Men's 3 Position (Big Bore).

A middle-order batsman from Chesney in Guyana's East Berbice-Corentyne region, Khan represented the Guyanese under-19s at the 2000 WICB Under-19 Tournament, playing in three matches. After good form for Berbice in inter-county matches, he was selected in Guyana's squad for the inaugural 2006 Stanford 20/20 tournament. On debut against Montserrat in July 2006, he did not bat, but in Guyana's quarter-final against Jamaica, he scored 23 not out coming in eighth in the batting order. He and Andre Percival put on an unbroken partnership of 42 runs for the eighth wicket, helping Guyana to a three-wicket win with one over to spare. Khan made 21 not out in the semi-final against Grenada, promoted to sixth in the batting order, but was dismissed for 10 in the final against Trinidad and Tobago, which Guyana won by five wickets.

Because he was dismissed only once in his four matches, Khan has a batting average of 54.00 at Twenty20 level. He also finished the tournament with a strike rate of 180.00, having hit two fours and five sixes. His five sixes was the equal third-most of any player at the tournament, behind West Indies internationals Kieron Pollard and Daren Ganga. Although he has played no further matches for Guyana, Khan was, as of November 2014, still playing at club level in Berbice Cricket Board tournaments.

Born in Colombo, Imran attended Royal College, Colombo, and played for the school's cricket team in the annual Royal–Thomian match in both 2010 and 2011. A right-arm fast bowler, he made his first-class debut during the 2011–12 season, appearing for Saracens in a single match against Sri Lanka Army SC. He opened the bowling with Amila Mendis on debut, taking two wickets as Saracens lost by an innings and 90 runs. Imran was subsequently selected in a single Premier League match for the Ruhuna Royals in August 2012, replacing Tharanga Lakshitha in the side.

For the 2012–13 season, Imran switched to Bloomfield, making his list-A debut in the Premier Limited Overs Tournament in December 2012. He went on to play three list-A matches and seven first-class matches during the season. In his seven Premier Trophy matches, he took 21 wickets, finishing behind Suraj Randiv (50), Upul Indrasiri (29), and Chatura Randunu (25) for Bloomfield. His best bowling figures, 5/67, came against the Panadura Sports Club in the opening match of the tournament. Imran again played regularly for Bloomfield during the 2013–14 season, in both formats of the game, but is yet to record any further five-wicket hauls. His appearances during the 2014–15 were less sporadic – only three first-class games and a single twenty20.

He garnered national attention after being mentioned by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech at Wembley Stadium, London, in November 2015, where Modi said, "My India is in Imran Khan of Alwar.