A shekarar 1982, Khan mai shekaru talatin ya karbi kyaftin din tawagar kwallon kafa ta Pakistan daga 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 139 ODIs, 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 a Ingila a shekaru 28 a Lord's. Shekarar farko ta Khan a matsayin kyaftin ita ce mafi girma a cikin tarihinsa a matsayin dan wasan kwallon kafa mai sauri da kuma dan wasa. Ya rubuta mafi kyawun wasan kwallon kafa na aikinsa yayin da ya dauki wickets 8 da 58 a Sri Lanka a Lahore a shekarar 1981.
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