PAKISTAN: CRICKET BAT USED BY IMRAM KHAN IN PAKISTAN'S VICTORIOUS 1992 WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN RAISES 20,000 US DOLLARS FOR FLOOD VICTIMS AT AUCTION

Record ID: 178959

  • Title: PAKISTAN: CRICKET BAT USED BY IMRAM KHAN IN PAKISTAN'S VICTORIOUS 1992 WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN RAISES 20,000 US DOLLARS FOR FLOOD VICTIMS AT AUCTION
  • Date: 4th August 2001
  • Summary: UNKNOWN LOCATION, PAKISTAN (RECENT-JULY 23-24-25, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. FLOODED AREA, BUILDINGS UNDER WATER 2. TRUCK UNDER WATER ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 4, 2001) (REUTERS) 3. PAKISTAN CRICKETER AND POLITICIAN IMRAN KHAN SHOWING HIS BAT AND SWEATER UNKNOWN LOCATION, PAKISTAN (RECENT-JULY 23-24-25, 2001) (REUTERS) 4. BOY WADING THROUGH WATER WITH BICYCLE 5. MAN WITH MOTOBICYCLE PED TAXI WADING THROUGH WATER ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 4, 2001) (REUTERS) 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PAKISTAN CRICKETER-TURNED-POLITICIAN IMRAN KHAN SAYING "I saw the areas, Raja Bazaar, Kashmiri Bazaar and the areas around Leh Nullah. It was so painful to watch poor people, their houses destroyed, shops destroyed. So I am trying to do my bit." UNKNOWN LOCATION, PAKISTAN (RECENT-JULY 23-24-25, 2001)(REUTERS) 7. PEOPLE WITH REMNANTS OF DESTROYED TENTS FROM CAMP ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 4, 2001) (REUTERS) 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) KHAN SAYING "This is a bat which used to be specially made for me. This is the last of that one left. So I am going to have that auctioned. And this is my sweater which I (wore) when I used to play cricket. Everything else has been donated or auctioned for Shaukat Khanum (cancer hospital). So these were the last things left." 9. KHAN ENTERING PAKISTAN TELEVISION BUlLDING KARACHI, PAKISTAN (FILE - MARCH 29, 1992) (REUTERS) 10. FANS CELEBRATE AS WAVING AT KHAN AND THE TEAM ON THEIR RETURN FROM THE WORLD CUP IN AUSTRALIA AFTER THEIR VICTORY Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th August 2001 13:00
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  • Location: ISLAMABAD, UNKNOWN LOCATIONS AND KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA19LUHTT4UV9U75EKR1O84I37K
  • Story Text: Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has
    raised 20,000 US dollars for flood victims by auctioning
    the bat he used during Pakistan's victorious campaign in
    the 1992 World Cup.



    Imran Khan arrived at the Pakistan Television (PTV)
    station in Islamabad on Saturday evening (August 4) to auction
    his old bat and sweater.

    He said it was the sight of so many people made homeless in the
    July floods that motivated him to donate his cricketing gear.

    "I saw the areas, Raja Bazaar, Kashmiri Bazaar, and the
    areas around Leh Nullah. It was so painful to watch poor
    people , their houses destroyed, shops destroyed. So I am
    trying to do my bit," Khan said.

    It appears it was not the first time he had his cricketing
    regalia to raise funds. However he assured us it was no
    ordinary bat.

    "This is a bat which used to be specially made for me.This
    is the last of that one left. So I am going to have that
    auctioned . And this is my sweater which I (wore) when I used
    to play cricket. Everything else has been donated or auctioned
    for Shaukat Khanum (cancer hospital). So these were the last
    things left." Khan said.

    The fund raising programme which included Pakistani film
    stars, singers and other well-known personalities went on for
    hours.

    It was eventually sold to a Mr Mehmood for 20,000 US
    dollars. Mehmood, an industrialist from Lahore, said he had
    previously bought cricketer Javid Maindad's bat a few years
    ago.

    Khan led the Pakistan cricket team to victory in Melbourne
    Australia in 1992. It was the first and only time Pakistan has
    won the World Cup, wresting victory from a then formidable
    English team.

    That was the bat that won Pakistan its cricket pride in
    1992 and on Saturday it went to help victims of flooding which
    hit the country last July, less than two weeks ago.

    Almost two hundred people were killed and thousands
    rendered homeless by flash floods that followed heavy
    downpours.

    Soon after the 1992 World Cup victory, Khan helped build a
    huge cancer Hospital in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's Punjab
    Province.

    The hospital, named after Khan's mother who died of
    cancer, is reported to be the only Cancer Hospital that
    provides free treatment to 85% of its patients.

    Khan, who played International cricket for almost two
    decades, and was famous for his deadly fast bowling, has been
    ranked among the Top Ten of all great cricketers of the century.

    Since 1996, Imran has been actively involved in politics
    in Pakistan.

    Almost two hundred people were killed and thousands
    rendered homeless by flash floods that followed the downpours.
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