“Instead, they came to be feared and resented.

The balance of power titled. All these changes took place during Imran's period of dominance, and he came personally to represent the cricketing consciousness of the new era,” he writes. 

He then mentions an anecdote about how a holy man predicted that Imran will make a comeback after he retired from the game after the World Cup in 1987. 

Imran had first declined when the Pakistan cricket board formally asked him to rejoin the national squad.  “A series was looming against the West Indies and Gen Zia uttered a personal plea. Eventually Imran was unable to resist,” Oborne writes.