Greg Chappell

Can you give me one?

He said, don't worry, I'll speak to him.

And less than a minute later, he was back.

Kapil was in as well.

I mean...

That's pretty courageous because they were setting themselves up more for the social media than anything else.

I think that the message that we got across was that this is bigger than politics and it is more about human rights and it's about cricket.

a member of the cricket family, someone whom we respected greatly as a cricketer and was a great cricketer, but has gone on to do some amazing things for his country.

And, you know, our friendship sort of...

lasted beyond the cricket field and I've been lucky enough to go to Pakistan a number of times I went as a player but after I retired I went back and worked at the National Cricket Academy for some time in 2004 and I thought it would be rude of me to be in his country and not make contact so I caught up with Imran in 2004 and that was when he told me about his foray into politics and

I was quite incredulous, really.

Why would you do such a thing?

And I'll never forget the words.

He said, I want my country to be the country that it can be.

And that was quite profound.

I was then back in Pakistan as coach of India in 2006.

And again, I made a point of catching up with him.

And at that stage, he had tried and failed to get seats in parliament.

And I spoke to him about that and said, that must be disappointing.

And he said, Greg, life and politics goes in seven year cycles.