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Darrell Hammond

Darrell Clayton Hammond (conceived October 8, 1955) is an American performer, stand-up comic and impressionist. He was a normal cast part on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2009. Upon his flight, Hammond, at age 53, was the most established thrown part in the show's history. Hammond showed up than some other cast part and mimicked in excess of 107 superstars, with Bill Clinton as his most regular impression. Hammond held the record for most pantomimes by a SNL cast part with 107, until the point that he was outperformed by Kenan Thompson on May 3, 2014. As of December 10, 2011, he had showed up on the show eight times since leaving the cast.[needs update] On September 19, 2014, Hammond was reported as the new commentator of SNL, supplanting Don Pardo, who had passed on the month before.In May 2015, he started depicting Colonel Sanders in TV ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken, in spite of the fact that he was supplanted by Norm Macdonald, additionally a previous SNL cast part,...

Imran Khan


Imran Khan Niazi PP, HI (Urdu: عمران احمد خان نیازی‬‎) (conceived 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani government official, previous top of the line cricketer and altruist who drives the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and fills in as an individual from the National Assembly. Before entering legislative issues, Khan played worldwide cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century.

Khan was destined to a Pashtun family in Lahore, Punjab, in 1952 and taught at Aitchison, Worcester, and later at Keble College, Oxford. Khan began playing cricket at 13 years old. At first playing for his school and later for the Worcestershire Cricket Club, he made his presentation for Pakistan at 18 years old amid the 1971 English arrangement at Birmingham. In the wake of moving on from Oxford, Khan joined Pakistan's national cricket group in 1976, and played until 1992. Khan likewise filled in as the group's commander discontinuously all through 1982– 1992. He, eminently, drove Pakistan to triumph at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan's first and final triumph in that opposition.

Khan resigned from cricket in 1992 as one of Pakistan's best players. In all out he made 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket, and is one of eight world cricketers to have accomplished an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches.He was later, in 2010, accepted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. In 1991, he propelled a gathering pledges battle to set up a tumor clinic in memory of his mom. He raised $25 million to set up the principal healing facility in Lahore in 1994, and later in 2015 a moment clinic in Peshawar. Khan remains a conspicuous giver and analyst, and filled in as the chancellor of Bradford University in the vicinity of 2005 and 2014 and was the beneficiary of a privileged cooperation by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012.

In April 1996, Khan established the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (lit: Pakistan Movement for Justice), an anti-extremist political gathering, and turned into the gathering's national pioneer. Khan challenged for a seat in the National Assembly in October 2002 and filled in as a resistance part from Mianwali until 2007. He was again chosen to the parliament in the 2013 decisions, when his gathering rose as the second biggest in the nation by well known vote. Khan fills in as the parliamentary pioneer of the gathering and leads the third biggest square of parliamentarians in the National Assembly since 2013. His gathering likewise drives a coalition government in north-western territory of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khan remains a well known political figure and is the creator of, among different distributions, Pakistan: A Personal History.

Khan influenced a dull top of the line to cricket make a big appearance at sixteen years old in Lahore. By the beginning of the 1970s, he was playing for his home groups of Lahore A (1969– 70), Lahore B (1969– 70), Lahore Greens (1970– 71) and, in the long run, Lahore (1970– 71). Khan was a piece of University of Oxford's Blues Cricket group amid the 1973– 1975 seasons. At Worcestershire, where he played district cricket from 1971 to 1976, he was viewed as just a normal medium-pace bowler. Amid this decade, different groups spoke to by Khan included Dawood Industries (1975– 1976) and Pakistan International Airlines (1975– 1976 to 1980– 1981). From 1983 to 1988, he played for Sussex.

Khan influenced his Test to cricket make a big appearance against England in 1971 Edgbaston. After three years, he appeared in the One Day International (ODI) coordinate, by and by playing against England at Trent Bridge for the Prudential Trophy. Subsequent to moving on from Oxford and completing his residency at Worcestershire, he came back to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a perpetual place on his local national group beginning from the 1976– 1977 season, amid which they confronted New Zealand and Australia.Following the Australian arrangement, he visited the West Indies, where he met Tony Greig, who marked him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.His accreditations as one of the speediest bowlers of the world began to end up set up when he completed third at 139.7 km/h in a quick knocking down some pins challenge at Perth in 1978, behind Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding, yet in front of Dennis Lillee, Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts.

As a quick bowler, Khan achieved the pinnacle of his forces in 1982. In 9 Tests, he got 62 wickets at 13.29 each, the most reduced normal of any bowler in Test history with no less than 50 wickets in a timetable year.In January 1983, playing against India, he achieved a Test rocking the bowling alley rating of 922 focuses. Albeit figured reflectively (ICC player appraisals did not exist at the time), Khan's shape and execution amid this period positions third in the ICC's All-Time Test Bowling Rankings.

Khan accomplished the all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the second quickest record behind Ian Botham's 72. He is likewise settled as having the second most elevated untouched batting normal of 61.86 for a Test batsman playing at position 6 of the batting request. He played his last Test coordinate for Pakistan in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Khan resigned forever from cricket a half year after his last ODI, the notable 1992 World Cup last against England in Melbourne, Australia. He finished his vocation with 88 Test matches, 126 innings and scored 3807 keeps running at a normal of 37.69, including six centuries and 18 fifties. His most noteworthy score was 136 runs. As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the main Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to do so.In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 keeps running at a normal of 33.41. His most elevated score stays 102 not out. His best ODI playing is reported at 6 wickets for 14 runs.He holds the record for the best knocking down some pins figures by any bowler in an ODI innings in a losing cause(6– 14).

Captaincy

At the stature of his profession, in 1982, the thirty-year-old Khan assumed control over the captaincy of the Pakistan cricket group from Javed Miandad. As a chief, Khan played 48 Test matches, out of which 14 were won by Pakistan, 8 lost and whatever remains of 26 were drawn. He likewise played 139 ODIs, winning 77, losing 57 and consummation one out of a tie.

In the group's second match, Khan drove them to their first Test win on English soil for a long time at Lord's. Khan's first year as chief was the pinnacle of his inheritance as a quick bowler and an all-rounder. He recorded the best Test knocking down some pins of his profession while taking 8 wickets for 58 keeps running against Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1981– 1982.He likewise beat both the rocking the bowling alley and batting midpoints against England in three Test arrangement in 1982, taking 21 wickets and averaging 56 with the bat. Later that year, he set up an exceedingly recognized execution in a home arrangement against the impressive Indian group by taking 40 wickets in six Tests at a normal of 13.95. Before the finish of this arrangement in 1982– 1983, Khan had taken 88 wickets in 13 Test coordinates over a time of one year as captain.This same Test arrangement against India, notwithstanding, likewise brought about a pressure crack in his shin that kept him out of cricket for over two years. A test treatment financed by the Pakistani government helped him recuperate before the finish of 1984 and he made an effective rebound to global cricket in the last piece of the 1984– 1985 season.

In India in 1987, Khan drove Pakistan in its first-since forever Test arrangement win and this was trailed by Pakistan's first arrangement triumph in England amid the same year.During the 1980s, his group additionally recorded three noteworthy draws against the West Indies. India and Pakistan co-facilitated the 1987 World Cup, however neither wandered past the semi-finals. Khan resigned from global cricket toward the apocalypse Cup. In 1988, he was requested to come back to the captaincy by the leader of Pakistan, General Zia-Ul-Haq, and on 18 January, he reported his choice to rejoin the team.Soon in the wake of coming back to the captaincy, Khan drove Pakistan to another triumphant visit in the West Indies, which he has related as "the last time I truly rocked the bowling alley well".He was announced Man of the Series against West Indies in 1988 when he took 23 wickets in 3 Tests. Khan's vocation high as a commander and cricketer came when he drove Pakistan to triumph in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Playing with a fragile batting line-up, Khan advanced himself as a batsman to play in the best request alongside Javed Miandad, yet his commitment as a bowler was negligible. At 39 years old, Khan took the triumphant last wicket himself.

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