Mohammad Yousaf - A lost legend of Pakistani Cricket
In 1974, Yousuf Youhana was born in the green fields of Pakistani province http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833, in a Christian family. The city in which he born is one of the most crowded cities of Pakistan named Lahore. At that time nobody knew that the boy will become a legendary
cricketer and one of the few Christians who play cricket for Pakistan.
He made his Test debut on 26 February, 1998, against South Africa at Durban, and since then he has played 90 Test matches, scoring 7,530 runs in 156 innings at an average of 52.29.
In Test cricket he holds the record of scoring the most runs in a calendar year. He had marked this achievement after breaking the record of West Indian legend, Vivian Richards, as he made 1,788 runs at an average of 99.88 in 2006.
The year 2006 is said to be the year of Mohammad Yousaf, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 at Lord’s on 26 August last
year. He has a highest score of 223 in Test cricket.
Mohammad Yousaf’s One Day International (ODI) career started in 1998 in a match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 at Harare on 28 March. Since then he has played 288 ODIs and scored 9,720 at an average of 41.71 with the highest score of 141 not out. He has scored 15 hundreds
and 64 half-centuries and played his last ODI against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Dubai, on 8 November, 2010.
His T20I Career is very short, in which he played only three matches and scored only 50 runs at an average of 16.66 with the highest score of 26. In First-class cricket, he has played 141 matches after starting his first-class career in 1996-97. He scored
10, 505 runs at an average of 47.96 with the highest score of 223.
Mohammad Yousaf has played for Pakistan as a Christian until 2005. In 2005 he embraced Islam and became a devout Muslim.
Yousaf is the third Pakistani batsman who surmounted the 6000-run mark in Test cricket. The other two are the great http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 at Karachi to become the sixth Pakistani and 30th
cricketer who scored a hundred in each innings of a Test match.
The Pakistan Cricket Board had imposed an indefinite ban on him from playing all forms of cricket, and then on 29 March 2010, he announced his retirement from International cricket just one day after he was banned.
Yousaf revealed at a press conference in Karachi, "I received a letter from the PCB that my staying in the team is harmful for the team, so I announce my retirement from international cricket."
On 27 March, Yousaf revealed that he had decided to retire from International cricket. "Yes, I have decided to retire as Pakistan player and my decision is not an emotional one", Yousuf told press agency AFP, "It's of no use playing if my playing is harmful
to the team."
He was imposed indefinite ban due to disciplinary issues during http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
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