Former cricketers spin to support Imran Khan in Pakistan polls

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani cricket stars have come out in support of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan as a nation prepares to go to a polls on Wednesday.

“It was in your care skip @ImrankhanPTI that we became universe champions in 1992. It is in your care that we can again turn a good approved country,” tweeted Wasim Akram.

“You have got what it takes Skipper @ImranKhanPTI though it will take all we have… No one can doubt your Honesty and thats what is need in a country…An honest LEADER,” tweeted former captain Waqar Younis.

BehindYouSkipper became one of a country’s tip trending hashtags as celebrities and former cricketers came to Khan’s support.

Former Australian star Dean Jones also lent his support.

“I am not a domestic person… though @ImranKhanPTI we would have desired to play under…. good personality and would do good for Pakistan if given a opportunity,” he tweeted.

Imran Khan was catapulted to tellurian luminary as a World Cup cricket champion, though a male famous in a West as a luminary seducer is now seeking to lead Pakistan as a populist, righteous and anti-corruption reformist.

Khan’s chances of apropos primary apportion on Jul 25 are believed to be his best given entering politics dual decades ago. But critics lay a electoral personification margin is being bound for a earlier quick bowling all-rounder by a absolute military.

Khan has denied a claims and decried a dishonesty of Pakistan’s domestic elite, earnest to build an “Islamic gratification state” if his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) celebration forms a subsequent government.

Recent polls uncover PTI’s recognition climbing nationally. —AFP

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