Here’s why PM Imran was ‘sorry’ for winning a $72,000 car in 1989

Prime Minister Imran Khan won a Range Rover car worth $72,000 in 1989 for being the International Cricketer of the Year and Australian press wasn’t happy with it.

The PM shared a newspaper clipping of the incident on his Instagram account. At the time, Imran was the first Asian and eighth foreigner to win the prize that was started in 1979.

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Imran and Australian cricketer Dean Jones were in the run for the ICC prize and Australian skipper Allan Border was irked by the fact that the award went to Imran Khan from Pakistan. Border said that the award should have been given to his teammate Dean Jones.

As per the article shared by Imran Khan on his social media account, when he went out for toss with Aussie cricketer Allan Border at the MCG for the first of the best of three finals, he wore a specially printed T-shirt saying “I’m sorry I won the car.”

When Imran Khan told interviewer Ian Chappell that the proceeds from the $72,000 Rover 827 Vitesse were to be donated to the cancer hospital he was setting up in Lahore at the time, Allan Borders was embarrassed.