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If you don't like cricket or you're just plain tired of it stay tuned because this isn't really a story about cricket rather about a very wealthy maybe even spoiled young man who until now has been enjoying the best of two possible worlds of all the cricketing stars to emerge in the last few years Imran Khan perhaps best represents the kind of show business hype that now surrounds the game for better or worse in England in Australia he's attracted almost as much press as a sex symbol as he has as an out of form all-rounder which is a little ironic when you consider he comes to one of the most conservative countries in the world this is not the MCG or Lords this is a mosque and this Muslim worshiper is Imran Khan Pakistan is one of em Rijn Khan's two worlds this is the other just below Harvey and Donald that's up in the air and Emraan takes a very good catch the Imran Khan the Western press has dubbed the most glamorous man in sport crickets first genuine sex symbols definitely way down to the boundary for motive Imran Khan you you're quite sheepish about your private life and about your association with women are you saying that that your reputation as a lady killer is unjustified totally totally oh I have found it very difficult to live with that image trendy Bistro is a far cry from the religious laws that restrict his freedom back home in Islamic Pakistan I suppose you'd say that you know one goes out at nights and has womanizers and drinks and all that and when one comes back one lives a pure Muslim it actually does it doesn't happen like what Muslim men seldom romp on beaches Muslim women never do it is actually a dilemma it's becoming more of a dilemma each day the thing is I won't live in Pakistan to find a girl in the West who's going to I mean I might be lucky one day I mean maybe I do fall in love with someone who wants to live here I mean since it hasn't happened and chances are quite slim that's why I assume I'm going to have an arranged marriage because there's no other way to get married in Pakistan that other world of Imran Khan is hometown of Lahore whether 31 year old professional cricketer comes between seasons this crackling radio broadcast from the Melbourne is the closest he got to the recent World Cup tie between Australia and the West Indies back home at his old family club he's cautiously keeping his batting in touch well his stress fractured shin slowly mends one of cricket's brightest stars admits there's a very real cloud over his career how would it affect you personally if your injury was so bad it didn't heal and you weren't able to return to the game of the way the way you played at the foot I think I would have to leave the game I'd much rather leave it than keep lingering on in fact that this past year has been very in a lot of ways has been has made me aware of what I must start thinking often what I must do if I'm not playing cricket and I've been trying to prepare myself I think I'm more equipped mal to deal with a life without cricket then it was before huh yellow yellow yellow yellow sorry yellow the other if Lahore has a dress circle Park where Imran Khan grew up very comfortably is it for generations all the men and boys brothers and cousins in the cricket crazy Khan family have picked up their first baton ball to play on this neighborhood a team after him would you say that that cricket is in fact a sport of the privileged people in this country well at all in fact there very few people who from the privileged classes who actually play cricket it's basically played by the masses Lajos itis and college harks back to the Raj it also exemplifies that Imran Khan's story is not a rags to riches one privilege and opportunity he admits have always been his thing I had these visions that one day I would suddenly become another bradman that was a fairly modest view you had of yourself - just thought it might be the next Fredman well I'll tell you something when one grows up in very protected environments like HSN and Zaman Park which is where I was for the first 17 years of my life and I just you know I had a very sheltered view and I thought since I was better than boys of my own age it was only natural that once I grew up I'd be better than everyone else how close to being the Bradman of Pakistan do you reckon you you became we are likely to become in fact even now I think of myself mainly as a bona who can bat so you'd regard yourself at least as being a better bowler than bradman was well certainly a better all-around er from the playing fields of Pakistan's Eton to Oxford where he graduated in politics and economics as well as cricket you know why it's hard to imagine that a man like you educated as well as you are and going to Oxford successfully could find cricket satisfying surely there must be frustrations in it for you actually a lot of people ask me this and some of my friends have they keep you know implying that I must be quite stupid or certainly quite brainless to you know pursue a little red ball all day long I certainly find the cricket actually involves more of your brand and then then most other sports I've played a senior there must be people who say to you that ultimately cricket is just a game it's a pretty Charlie's why for a grown man to earn a living but they said hey why don't you go out and get yourself a proper job my father says that all the time yeah actually a lot of people have said that in fact my close friends at times say this and I think it's very difficult to make someone understand who really hasn't played the game as a cricket ball your future are you nuts well it's certainly I mean there's so much glamour attached to cricket it's just like a man from a poor family or poor background or deprived background wanting to be dreaming of being a film star it's the same sort of thing cricket means glamour and it means financials although they are mislead somewhat in that respect but it certainly means you know being in the public eye and that's one way of becoming a national figure moving about in his own country with Imran Khan literally a national hero is not easy it's even harder for him in Muslim Pakistan the ladies man is strictly a man's man no giggling girls in Johar Abed at home Imran is an idol in the land where poverty and oppression give eighty two million Pakistanis little to get excited about in western terms he's a pop star a movie star and politician roll into one now have you handled the fact that you have become the symbol of that glamorous aspect of the sport with mixed feelings I mean I it's hard it's advantages that yet I on occasions found it hard to cope with it living in Pakistan imran khan is a patanè ruggedly independent tribesman originally from the frontier province near the Khyber Pass the tans are rifleman fighters and hunters batons have been known to be the only race in the subcontinent that has never been conquered I mean the British never conquered them there well that's what we claim so you'd said that there are very proud people you know and they've got a tradition of you know being a being very warlike if the Russians are finding that out yet quite obviously a proud man but it could be said that sometimes your demeanor on and off the field borders on arrogance well that I mean when a first time when people came up with these allegations I I was really shocked and even now I mean I've never considered myself arrogant or which is what I've been accused of or a snob I think it's partly been the reason that I've been very shy I mean I had when I first started playing cricket in front of crowds I was really embarrassed all the time if I was feeling on the boundary line you know I'm if someone said anything to me I'd just be sort of blushing away and I just couldn't cope with the playing in front of so many people Imran Khan is not shy about his privileged life in Lahore most Pakistanis do not dine like this or most Australians for that matter to suggest that in earnest caught between two worlds between two absurdly different cultures is not only obvious but uncharitable observers might say there's a touch of hypocrisy about his double life you don't change your moral standards when you come and when you come hurt no not at all that I mean the culture here has existed much before any you know when the people in in England were living in caves or in the West and you know and therefore it's not that easy to impose Western values here people often talk about a man like you being torn between two cultures between two value systems do you feel that way at all the one thing that I have decided is that I want to live in Pakistan and therefore I I did say that chances are I'm going to have an arranged marriage because even if I fall in love with a girl abroad chances are she's not going to come back and live with me here even if she does it would be a very short-term thing because it is actually expecting too much for for a girl from the West to to live in a culture like this what can in brain can do it rather than bow fast and hit a cricket ball pretty hard maybe sounder some sort of an idiot all I know is that something which I do must have some sort of challenge in life because otherwise I mean if there's nothing worse when I think of myself so four years later sitting behind a desk....