Former cricket captains urge Pakistan to ensure ‘humane treatment, proper medical care’ for Imran Khan

Imran Khan, former Pakistan Prime Minister and former Pakistan cricket captain. File
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Former Australian captain Greg Chappell with the assist of 20 different former worldwide skippers appealed to the Pakistan Authorities led by Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, to offer ‘humane remedy and correct medical care’ for Imran Khan, former Pakistan Prime Minister and former Pakistan cricket captain.

The letter is reproduced in full, beneath.

“His Excellency Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif

Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Prime Minister’s Workplace

Islamabad, Pakistan

Enchantment by 21 Former Worldwide Cricket Captains on the Medical Therapy and Welfare of Imran Khan

Expensive Prime Minister,

Six months in the past, fourteen former worldwide cricket captains wrote to you and the Pakistani authorities interesting for humane remedy and correct medical take care of Imran Khan. We wrote then not as politicians, however as former colleagues and rivals who share a bond solid on the cricket discipline — one which transcends the borders and disputes that too usually divide international locations.

We write once more now — joined by seven additional former captains -because of what has

reportedly simply occurred. Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket ordered that Imran Khan be transferred to hospital for examination by a medical board that was to incorporate his personal private physicians and his sister, Dr Uzma Khan. The Court docket additionally reinstated weekly household visits. These had been very welcome steps.

Concerningly, Mr Khan’s hospital keep lasted just a few hours. He was examined by a state-appointed crew quite than the board the Court docket had directed, declared “medically match,” and returned to Adiala Jail earlier than that board may full its work. His household and authorized crew say this falls in need of what the Court docket ordered.

We don’t presume to adjudicate Pakistan’s home authorized processes. That isn’t our place, and it was not the spirit wherein we wrote in February. However we do ask, once more, respectfully:

1. That the medical board directed by the Supreme Court docket — together with Mr Khan’s personal medical doctors — be permitted to finish a full and unbiased evaluation of his well being, significantly the reported lack of imaginative and prescient in his proper eye.

2. That the weekly household visits reinstated by the Court docket be honoured with out interruption or administrative delay.

3. That regardless of the consequence of that medical evaluation, the remedy advisable by it’s supplied directly. Imran Khan is 73 years previous and has now spent greater than three years in custody. Regardless of the authorized and political arguments surrounding his case, the essential decency of guaranteeing a court-ordered medical course of is definitely accomplished is just not, in our view, a controversial request.

It’s one we imagine each nation that performs this recreation would recognise as truthful.

We hope this matter will be resolved expeditiously and with the dignity Mr Imran Khan deserves.

Yours in cricket,

23 August 2026

Michael Atherton OBE

Alex Blackwell

Allan Border AO, Australian of the 12 months 1989

Michael Brearley OBE

Greg Chappell AO MBE

Ian Chappell

Belinda Clark AO

Sir Alastair Cook dinner