Faisalsq092
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Imran Khan speaking on TV
"When I was 19, in England, I saw Dennis Lillee bowl the first time on Television. When I saw him bowling, I said I wanted to be like him. I want to be a fast bowler."
"My coach kept on asking me to be a medium bowler but I wanted to be a fast bowler."
"My bowling action was not suitable to be a fast bowler. I remodeled my action to be a fast bowler, which no one has ever done."
"My action was completely different when I was 18 as compared to when I reached my peak."
"You can be what you dream to be. Everyone said that I cannot be a fast bowler, even my club mates, but I always kept on trying and trying."
"Sometimes you see a dead-end and it is very difficult to overcome it. I motivated myself and kept my self belief."
"No one is born with self belief, you get it by performance."
"After playing a cricket match, I wouldn't sleep at night until I analysed what mistakes I made today."
"I never read newspapers after a bad performance. A journalist who hasn't played club cricket cannot teach and tell me what to do, an International cricketer. I myself have to analyse where I should improve."
"When you lose a game, everyone comes in with free advice. I even tell my party members not to give free advice!"
"I ignored criticism and paid heed to criticism only from certain players. Richie Benaud, Ian Chappell, Geoffrey Boycott (only batting) were some whose columns I gave attention to."
"Some people criticized because they were jealous and some people did because they didn't had proper understanding. I usually ignored their criticism"
"If you don't have the ability to differentiate between good criticism and poor one, you will get easily demoralized."
"I was about to turn 24 when I toured Australia. I enjoyed the most playing in Australia. The wickets had bounce and if you have pace, you can pick up wickets."
"I enjoyed batting in Australia as the bounce made it easier to play shots."
"The 1976 tour of Australia and then to West Indies made me pick my game and made me a better player. Australia was the best team then and West Indies were about to become the best ever in the history of cricket."
"I never wanted to be a captain. I was elected as a captain in Oxford in my 2nd year, but I never wanted to be one."
"Being a captain made my performances better and I got selected in the Pakistan team based on my performances at Oxford."
"I never wanted to captain Pakistan. I was at my peak when players revolted against the captain. Both parties (revolting players and the current captain) decided on playing only under me. Hence, I became captain."
"There are two types of captains, the one who wants to be in the power, and the other who wants to achieve goals"
"The man who wants to be the captain for status or personal benefits usually compromises"
"The captain who actually wants to be a captain for achieving the goals usually resigns if he fails in achieving them so."
"I'm the only captain who has resigned two times in my career".
"I wasn't allowed to pick the team that I wanted myself, hence I resigned during my captaincy tenure"
"Once I broke my leg and when I came back after two years or so, I played as a regular player, not as a captain"
"My performance improved with the burden of captaincy because there was a lot of pressure on me"
"I faced very few injuries in my career compared to today's bowlers"
"I usually used to bowl 30+ overs in a single day, today's bowlers can't even stay on field for more than 20 overs"
"When I faced a injury, it was against India and it was during the peak of my career."
"India had a lot of great players such as Gavaskar and Amarnath during that series"
"I took forty wickets in that series and I faced a stress fracture"
"I used to bowl almost the whole day"
"If I knew that I had a stress fracture, I would have rested for two or three months and the fracture would have gone away".
"Three years were wasted during my peak because of that stress fracture"
"The biggest quality of the captaincy should be to lead from the front, no matter what"
"The reason my batting improved was because when we toured overseas, most of our batsmen would struggle and I used to come at one down"
"I used to bat at number seven but once I got the captaincy, I realized that none of our batsmen could do well overseas hence I promoted myself up the order"
"I had the technique to bat at one down, also I had to take the responsibility although I didn't fancy batting up the order so you could say I was kind of forced to do it"
"The technique that players develop in the sub-continent isn't good enough to play the moving or seaming ball"
"Domestic Cricket has been mediocre since ages, I left playing Domestic Cricket since the standard dropped subsequently"
"The more competition you have, the more talent will arise. If the competition isn't going to be there then don't expect your talent to come above"
"If there are going to be like more than twenty teams with all the talent spread, what kind of competition do you expect?"
"Australia has six teams, New Zealand has six teams, South Africa has six teams"
"England has introduced two new leagues now because there are a lot of overseas cricketers from different countries who play in the English leagues"
"You can take my word that no country ever has had more talent than Pakistan, but what matters is how do you utilize the talent?"
"Misbah is Pakistan's best Test captain & a wonderful Test batsman. It's sad that he was given a proper chance so late"
"In countries like Australia, a player retires by the age of 34. Look at Michael Clarke, he has now retired and he is only 34"
"Mohammad Irfan is a another example, he is the tallest bowler in the World and bowls at 140+ KPH, If Mohammad Irfan was playing under me, I could have won the match with him single-handedly"
"Irfan hasn't played a lot of Cricket so he doesn't know how to take the wickets, the second thing is that the Captain doesn't know how to use him"
"A bowler finishes by the age of 32, how come Mohammad Irfan started playing Cricket that age?"
"We don't have a Domestic Cricket structure, it's all run by in a Mafia-style manner"
"Everywhere there is a Mafia, in politics, in Elections Committee, in Cricket and everywhere else. It won't let the change come"
"The way they win the elections by rigging to make the money, same way there is a Mafia in Departmental Cricket which won't let the change come"
"Whenever a new chairman used to be appointed, I used to ask for a change in the system but it was really difficult for the chairmen to stand up against the Mafia"
"I used to have scouts who used to give me information, I asked a few of them to find me some good batsmen and one of the names given to me was Inzamam-ul-Haq, I called him to the nets and saw his batting, and I got him into the team"
"I saw Waqar Younis on Television in a random one-day match and I called him and got him into the team".
"When I was 19, in England, I saw Dennis Lillee bowl the first time on Television. When I saw him bowling, I said I wanted to be like him. I want to be a fast bowler."
"My coach kept on asking me to be a medium bowler but I wanted to be a fast bowler."
"My bowling action was not suitable to be a fast bowler. I remodeled my action to be a fast bowler, which no one has ever done."
"My action was completely different when I was 18 as compared to when I reached my peak."
"You can be what you dream to be. Everyone said that I cannot be a fast bowler, even my club mates, but I always kept on trying and trying."
"Sometimes you see a dead-end and it is very difficult to overcome it. I motivated myself and kept my self belief."
"No one is born with self belief, you get it by performance."
"After playing a cricket match, I wouldn't sleep at night until I analysed what mistakes I made today."
"I never read newspapers after a bad performance. A journalist who hasn't played club cricket cannot teach and tell me what to do, an International cricketer. I myself have to analyse where I should improve."
"When you lose a game, everyone comes in with free advice. I even tell my party members not to give free advice!"
"I ignored criticism and paid heed to criticism only from certain players. Richie Benaud, Ian Chappell, Geoffrey Boycott (only batting) were some whose columns I gave attention to."
"Some people criticized because they were jealous and some people did because they didn't had proper understanding. I usually ignored their criticism"
"If you don't have the ability to differentiate between good criticism and poor one, you will get easily demoralized."
"I was about to turn 24 when I toured Australia. I enjoyed the most playing in Australia. The wickets had bounce and if you have pace, you can pick up wickets."
"I enjoyed batting in Australia as the bounce made it easier to play shots."
"The 1976 tour of Australia and then to West Indies made me pick my game and made me a better player. Australia was the best team then and West Indies were about to become the best ever in the history of cricket."
"I never wanted to be a captain. I was elected as a captain in Oxford in my 2nd year, but I never wanted to be one."
"Being a captain made my performances better and I got selected in the Pakistan team based on my performances at Oxford."
"I never wanted to captain Pakistan. I was at my peak when players revolted against the captain. Both parties (revolting players and the current captain) decided on playing only under me. Hence, I became captain."
"There are two types of captains, the one who wants to be in the power, and the other who wants to achieve goals"
"The man who wants to be the captain for status or personal benefits usually compromises"
"The captain who actually wants to be a captain for achieving the goals usually resigns if he fails in achieving them so."
"I'm the only captain who has resigned two times in my career".
"I wasn't allowed to pick the team that I wanted myself, hence I resigned during my captaincy tenure"
"Once I broke my leg and when I came back after two years or so, I played as a regular player, not as a captain"
"My performance improved with the burden of captaincy because there was a lot of pressure on me"
"I faced very few injuries in my career compared to today's bowlers"
"I usually used to bowl 30+ overs in a single day, today's bowlers can't even stay on field for more than 20 overs"
"When I faced a injury, it was against India and it was during the peak of my career."
"India had a lot of great players such as Gavaskar and Amarnath during that series"
"I took forty wickets in that series and I faced a stress fracture"
"I used to bowl almost the whole day"
"If I knew that I had a stress fracture, I would have rested for two or three months and the fracture would have gone away".
"Three years were wasted during my peak because of that stress fracture"
"The biggest quality of the captaincy should be to lead from the front, no matter what"
"The reason my batting improved was because when we toured overseas, most of our batsmen would struggle and I used to come at one down"
"I used to bat at number seven but once I got the captaincy, I realized that none of our batsmen could do well overseas hence I promoted myself up the order"
"I had the technique to bat at one down, also I had to take the responsibility although I didn't fancy batting up the order so you could say I was kind of forced to do it"
"The technique that players develop in the sub-continent isn't good enough to play the moving or seaming ball"
"Domestic Cricket has been mediocre since ages, I left playing Domestic Cricket since the standard dropped subsequently"
"The more competition you have, the more talent will arise. If the competition isn't going to be there then don't expect your talent to come above"
"If there are going to be like more than twenty teams with all the talent spread, what kind of competition do you expect?"
"Australia has six teams, New Zealand has six teams, South Africa has six teams"
"England has introduced two new leagues now because there are a lot of overseas cricketers from different countries who play in the English leagues"
"You can take my word that no country ever has had more talent than Pakistan, but what matters is how do you utilize the talent?"
"Misbah is Pakistan's best Test captain & a wonderful Test batsman. It's sad that he was given a proper chance so late"
"In countries like Australia, a player retires by the age of 34. Look at Michael Clarke, he has now retired and he is only 34"
"Mohammad Irfan is a another example, he is the tallest bowler in the World and bowls at 140+ KPH, If Mohammad Irfan was playing under me, I could have won the match with him single-handedly"
"Irfan hasn't played a lot of Cricket so he doesn't know how to take the wickets, the second thing is that the Captain doesn't know how to use him"
"A bowler finishes by the age of 32, how come Mohammad Irfan started playing Cricket that age?"
"We don't have a Domestic Cricket structure, it's all run by in a Mafia-style manner"
"Everywhere there is a Mafia, in politics, in Elections Committee, in Cricket and everywhere else. It won't let the change come"
"The way they win the elections by rigging to make the money, same way there is a Mafia in Departmental Cricket which won't let the change come"
"Whenever a new chairman used to be appointed, I used to ask for a change in the system but it was really difficult for the chairmen to stand up against the Mafia"
"I used to have scouts who used to give me information, I asked a few of them to find me some good batsmen and one of the names given to me was Inzamam-ul-Haq, I called him to the nets and saw his batting, and I got him into the team"
"I saw Waqar Younis on Television in a random one-day match and I called him and got him into the team".
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