He called on his team to ‘fight like tigers’ to win the World Cup. Now facing jail, does he have it in him to pull off yet another comeback?
• Imran Khan: former Pakistan prime minister sentenced to three years in jail
From a playboy cricket celebrity with a British socialite wife to a conservative populist dubbed “Taliban Khan” by opponents for his flirtation with extreme views, Imran Khan’s life has traced an arc stranger and more colourful than most films.
He reached the top of sporting and political life, guiding Pakistan to its only Cricket World Cup win in his first career, and then defied mocking journalists and dismissive political veterans to make his upstart party a major force and to ultimately become prime minister.
