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Mohammad Yousuf Biography

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This much is at least certain that few Pakistani batsmen have been as elegant as Mohammad Yousuf and fewer still have been as creative, as hungry to bat as long and bat as big Mohammad Yousuf was born on 27^th August 1974 in Lahore , Punjab . He belongs to a family who had converted from Hindu low caste bilmiki to Christianity. His father Youhana Maseeh worked at the railway station, the family lived in the nearby Railway Colony. As a boy, he couldn't afford a bat and so swatted his brother's taped tennis ball offerings with wooden planks of various dimensions on surfaces masquerading as roads. Yousuf, hailing from poor background, was plucked from the obscurity of a tailor's shop in the slums of the eastern city of Lahore to play a local match in the 1990s. His well-crafted shots attracted attention and he rose through the ranks to become one of Pakistan's best batsman. Prior to his conversion to Islam in 2005, Yousuf was one of only a few Christians to play for the Pakistan cricket team.

Career :

Mohammad Yousuf is a right handed slight aggressive player who always needs to play big innings and stay on crease as long as possible. Mohammad Yousuf played for Pakistan Team in all three formats in Test matches , ODIs and in nearly T20 also. He made his Test debut against South Africa at Durban and One Day International debut against Zimbabwe at Harare. At his best, watching Yousuf bat is an uncomfortably tranquil experience, especially among the traditional chaos of a Pakistan batting order. He has a dangerously high back lift, which makes every shot he plays, a late, unhurried afterthought, but a beautiful one. in November 2006, Muhammad Yousuf achieved the 10th highest ever figure in ICC's test batting rating. His rating of 933 gave him a personal best of 2nd place in the rankings behind Ricky Ponting and was the 3rd highest ranking of any current player as well as the highest for any batsmen from Asia.

He has scored over 9,000 One Day International runs at an average above 40 (2nd highest batting average among Pakistani batsmen after Zaheer Abbas) and over 7,000 Test runs at an average above 50 (highest batting average amongst all Pakistani batsmen) with 24 Test centuries. He has the record of scoring the most runs without being dismissed in the One Day International match, with a total of 405 runs against Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe in 2002–2003. He has also scored a 23-ball fifty and a 68-ball hundred in One Day International. In Test match, he has scored a 27-ball fifty, which is 3rd fastest by any player. He was the top scorer during the successive years of 2002 and 2003 in the world in One Day International match. In 2004, he scored 111 runs against the Australians in the Boxing Day Test. In December 2005, he scored 223 runs against England at Lahore, also earning him the man of the match award. Seven months later in July 2006, when Pakistan toured England, he scored 202 runs and 48 in the first Test, again earning himself the man of the match award. He followed up with 192 in the third Test at Headingley and 128 in the final Test at The Oval. A year that started on a promising note, Yousuf carried it forward to break two world records both held earlier by former West Indian batsman Viv Richards. The 32-year-old, Pakistani batsman achieved an unparalleled 1788 runs in just 10 Test matches with the help of twelve centuries which became his second world record. Yousuf is known for his ability to score runs at exceptional rate through his great technique and composed strokeplay. Although capable of hitting the ball hard, Yousuf is quick between the wickets, although he is prone to being run out. Age, run-ins with the board since, and ill-advised flirtations with the ICL and captaincy dimmed his aura but the worst came in March 2010, when the PCB imposed a life-ban on him, along with Younis Khan as a part of its unprecedentedly harsh sanctions on senior players from the ill-fated tour of Australia. Yousuf's was overturned in 2010. If there had been a nagging doubt that he often withered when the heat was on - and the story of his rise from extremely humble backgrounds as a member of a minority religion should've wiped those away anyway - it was erased here. Yousuf announced his return to International Cricket and yet we see another great player of Pakistan resign from cricket.

Batting Show Ananlysis :

TEST :

Matches 90 Runs 7530 HS 223 Average 52.29 Hundreds 24 Fifties 33

ODI :

Matches 288 Runs 9720 HS 141* Average 41.71 Hundreds 15 Fifties 64

T20 :

Matches 3 Runs 50 HS 26 Average 16.66 Hundreds 0 Fifties 0

Mohammad Yousuf