A shekarar 1982, Khan mai shekaru talatin ya karbi kyaftin din kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Pakistan daga hannun Javed Miandad. Amma a matsayin kyaftin, Khan ya buga wasanni 48 na gwaji, wanda Pakistan ta lashe 14, ya rasa 8 kuma sauran 26 sun yi wasa. Ya kuma buga wasanni 139 na ODI, ya lashe 77, ya rasa 57 kuma ya ƙare daya a cikin wasa. A wasan na biyu na tawagar, Khan ya jagoranci su zuwa ga nasarar farko na gwaji a kasar Ingila na shekaru 28 a Ubangiji. Shekarar farko ta Khan a matsayin kyaftin ita ce mafi girma na tarihinsa a matsayin dan wasan kwallon kafa mai sauri da kuma dan wasan kwallon kafa. Ya rubuta mafi kyawun wasan kwallon kafa na aikinsa yayin da yake daukar nauyin 58 na 58 don gudu a kan Sri Lanka a Lahore a shekarar 1981.
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