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Imran Khan: Pakistan legend on cricket, leadership and politics

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Imran Khan is a Pakistan cricketing legend and one of the great all-rounders that blessed the game in the 1980s.

Was he the greatest of the era? Better than Ian Botham? Richard Hadlee? Kapil Dev? That, and a whole host of other topics, are covered in Sky Sports' feature, winner of best Television Sports Factual or Feature at the 2016 British Sports Journalism Awards.

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Find out how a large dog tickled Mike Atherton’s fancy during our Imran series

The SJA judging panel praised presenter Michael Atherton for making "a fascinating and revealing portrait of a legendary cricketer's life and passions and his experience in politics post retirement.

"Dealing with issues and controversies head-on, and benefiting from the presenter's penetrating and authoritative questions, the end result was excellent, attractive and compelling."

In episode one - sign in to watch it here - Imran talks to Athers about his formative years and the early international career.

Michael also travels to Lahore to explore where Imran - who scored 3,807 runs at an average of 37.69 in Test cricket and took 362 wickets at just 22.81 a piece - grew up.

In episode two - sign in to watch here - Imran chats about the art of leadership.

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Watch Part 2 of Imran - in which he chats about leadership - here

The Lahore-born star reflects on captaining his 'cornered tigers' to victory over England in the 1992 World Cup final at The MCG and also discusses the topics of ball-tampering and match-fixing.

In episode three - sign in to watch here - Imran tells Atherton about his life after cricket.

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Watch Part 3 of Imran - in which he reflects on his life after cricket - here

Khan speaks about the building of a cancer hospital in his mother's name and the political ambitions that have seen him found his own political party and become an MP in his native country.

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