mohammad yousuf Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
mohammad yousuf is a cricketer(sportsman) from Pakistan. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Mohammad Yousuf
Born
August 27, 1974, Lahore, Punjab
Age
49 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 90 | 288 | 3 | - |
Inn | 156 | 273 | 3 | - |
Runs | 7530 | 9720 | 50 | - |
Avg | 52.29 | 41.72 | 16.67 | - |
SR | 52.39 | 75.1 | 116.28 | - |
HS | 223 | 141 | 26 | - |
NO | 12 | 40 | 0 | - |
100s | 24 | 15 | 0 | - |
50s | 33 | 64 | 0 | - |
4s | 957 | 785 | 5 | - |
6s | 51 | 90 | 1 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 90 | 288 | 3 | - |
Inn | 1 | 2 | - | - |
Balls | 6 | 2 | - | - |
Runs | 3 | 1 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 1 | - | - |
BBI | 3 / 0 | 0 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | 3 / 0 | 0 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | 3.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 1.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Mohammad Bilal
- Pakistan
- Asia XI
- Bahawalpur
- Lahore
- Lahore Badshahs
- Lancashire
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Warwickshire
- Water and Power Development Authority
- Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
A born Christian, Mohammad Yousuf (Yousuf Youhana) was just the 4th Christian to play for Pakistan. Yousuf made his debut against South Africa at Durban in 1998 but failed to pass single figures in both the innings. Despite a century against Zimbabwe, Yousuf struggled for big scores against the more established line-ups early on in his career and it was only in November 1999 that he became an established name in international cricket with twin knocks of 95 and 75 at the Gabba.
It set up for a superb Test career where Yousuf consistently topped the run charts during a superb 7 year spell. 2006 was the icing on the cake for the converted Christian as he scored a world record 1788 runs in a single calendar year overtaking the previous record set by Sir Viv Richards. The ICC rewarded him for the feat with the Cricketer of the year award for 2007. The runs also removed any doubts one had about his abilities to score big against quality opposition away from home. Previously, one look at his career suggested that Yousuf had taken a liking to the minnows while struggling comparatively against the giants of world cricket.
In a consistent ODI career, Yousuf just fell 280 runs of completing 10,000 runs. He was the man for big occasions. A sublime 100 against Australia at home was followed by a good start in the 1999 WC before injury forced him out of the competition. Yousuf continued to be a run machine with several consistent scores. Like in the Tests, Mohammad Yousuf continued to fest upon the minnows with 6 of his 15 hundreds scored against them. While being no minnow basher, Yousuf gave the Pakistan middle order the much needed stability in what was an explosive batting line up.
Yousuf was guided by the basic principles of Islam and converted in 2005. His career has been not short of controversies though. In 2007, after initially signing a contract to join the Indian Cricket League, Yousuf later refused to join due to pressure from the Pakistan Cricket Board as he would later face a ban by the board. In return the PCB promised to get him into the Indian Premier League, however, no team bid for him as he faced a litigation from the ICL. In 2008, Yousuf joined ICL again to play mid-way though the second season earning him a ban from representing Pakistan.
Yousuf returned to the national team and scored a sublime 112 on his return against Sri Lanka in 2009. He was named as the captain for the twin tours of New Zealand and Australia. The Australian tour which Pakistan lost 0-3 was marred in controversies and Yousuf was banned for life, a stringent action from the Pakistan Cricket Board. The ban was later overturned and Yousuf was called back into the team in the middle of the England tour in 2010. He struggled on his return and has not been considered for selection since then. He played his last match against South Africa in Dubai, it was an ODI and Yousuf scored 3.
He is yet to announce his retirement from international cricket but has not played a first class game since May 2011. In an interview given in May 2013, he said \"I am already out of the Pakistan team and haven't played top class cricket for a while now so what is the purpose of me announcing my retirement\".
Fact: He opted out of the Champions trophy in 2008 as it clashed with the holy month of Ramadan.
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy
As of April 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
This much is at least certain that few Pakistani batsmen have been as elegant as Mohammad Yousuf and fewer still have been as prolific, as hungry to bat as long and bat as big.
At his best, watching Yousuf bat is an unnervingly tranquil experience, especially amid the traditional chaos of a Pakistan batting order. He has a dangerously high backlift, which makes every shot he plays, a late, unhurried afterthought, but a beautiful one. The feet take time to get going, but once they do, they dance with the best. Square and behind it on the off side are his areas, where his game is the most enchanting.
Both his life and career can be demarcated into two distinct phases. Until 2005, as Yousuf Youhana, he was only the fourth Christian to have played for Pakistan, and easily the most successful. He converted publicly to Islam late that year, after which he became a great Pakistani batsman and briefly part of as formidable a middle order as the country has seen, with Younis Khan and Inzamam-ul-Haq on either side. At least he believes there to be a link, and statistics would back that up.
Immediately after, in 2006, came his most profitable year, in fact the most profitable for any batsman ever in a calendar year. Over 11 Tests, he scored 1788 runs with nine hundreds, breaking Sir Viv Richards' 30-year-old record. 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.
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.
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