Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1991, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is a cricketer born in Pakistan 38 years ago and educated at

Oxford University he's today considered one of the games great all-rounders. His fame however extends well beyond the cricket field. His aristocratic

good looks and effortless charm have made him the idle of women the world over. However, he purports

to be disdainful of such admiration.

He remains a devout Muslim.

He doesn't drink.

He doesn't smoke.

And he said that his marriage, if it ever comes, will be arranged.

He is Imran Khan.

Imran I can't believe that in all those years of playing English cricket

that you haven't come under enormous pressure to sink a pint at some point or another.

Well, you know, when I first came to England, I was only 18, and I joined Worcestershire, and I was told by all the cricketers there that, look, if you have to be a fast poler, you must drink bear bear because that's what Freddie Truman drank.

And yes, and there was a lot of pressure also because they thought I was antisocial because

I didn't drink.

And you know, sadly, a lot of cricketers from Pakistan who came and played

cricket in England they started drinking because they felt you know they were being antisocial.

They got teased into it and then developed an awful alcohol habit

but joking and drinking and womanizing apart your faith is obviously extremely

important to you isn't it? Yes it was always important because I came from a home

and both my parents were religious and the family generally cousins everyone it was

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