An indispensable name in Pakistan's top order is Imam-ul-Haq. He is performing regularly in Pakistan jersey. But most of the time, his family members do not come to the field during his games. He and his family also had to listen to the slander that Inzamam-ul-Haq initiated Imam into the team through nepotism. Imam and his family are upset by the taunts of the audience.

In a recent YouTube podcast, Imam spoke openly about his family members not coming to the field. Inzamam-ul-Haq was Pakistan's chief selector during Imam’s ODI debut. That is the reason for the controversy. But Imam's ODI record says otherwise. In 59 ODIs played so far, Imam has scored 2719 runs at an average of 51.3 with 9 centuries and 16 fifties.

Imam said, “When I used to go out to dinner with my family, they would come up and call me parchi in front of my parents. I would be sitting at Nando’s with my family, and there would be young students quipping ‘look, the parchi is sitting there’. That was when I would feel the worst.”

Even if the Imam's family wants to watch the game, they deliberately do not go to the game to avoid these chants. Imam added “My parents want to watch me play, but they have not seen me play at a venue even once. Even I don’t want them to. I don’t want my mother hear someone utter parchi when I am fielding on the boundary. All this is normal to me. Whenever I am dismissed cheaply, they will not look at what I have achieved in my past but simply utter parchi. I do not want my family to be exposed to that.”

Imam also said that he suffered mentally because his family did not go to the field to watch his game, “The first time my sister watched me play was in 2022, when both West Indies (ODIs) and England (a Test match) played at Multan. By then I was a senior member of the side. The fact that my family could not attend the matches was a mental torture for me,” he concluded.