Congrats: Yousuf sets new Test run record

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Yousuf sets new Test run record

Pakistan’s Mohammad Yousuf has set a new record for the most Test runs in a calendar year.

Yousuf passed Viv Richards’ record of 1,710 runs when he scored his 47th run on day four of the third Test against West Indies in Karachi.
On the opening day of the match, Yousuf also broke the record for the most hundreds in a year with his eighth century of 2006.
Pakistan had reached 241-2 by lunch, a lead of 285, with Yousuf on 78.
The West Indies pacemen found little assistance off the slow and low wicket of the National Stadium as Mohammad Hafeez and Yousuf added 111 runs after resuming at the overnight 130-2.
Collymore found the edge of Yousuf’s bat on couple of occasions, but due to slow nature of the wicket, the ball did not carry to the slip fielders.
When on 43 Yousuf also surpassed the Pakistan record of most runs in a three-match series, set by former great Zaheer Abbas with 583 made against India in 1978. Daren Ganga dropped Yousuf on 68 when he could not hold on to a diving catch off Ramnaresh Sarwan just before lunch.

Source: BBC SPROTS

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Congratulations to Yousuf humhara Cheeta

Cant find a desi khatoon ;-)
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Congrulations Yousaf..........this record will not be easy to break.:biggthumb

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Congratulations!
:)

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Congratulations!
Some one will have to play "consistantly good cricket for whole year" to break his record , i feel it will take some years now :) like Saeed Anwar`s record of 194.... people comming close to that but ... :)

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MoYo Bhai mubarak Stunning performance and Mature batting performance

BACK TO HOME !!!!!
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:nuch: :aejaz: :jhanda:
mubarak ho yousuf… 9 centuries and 1,786 run you have made pakistan proud.
Can anyone please advise how many runs has ponting scored along with how many centuries this yr?

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^according to me, Ponting has 1058 runs this calender year with 6 centuries

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^^ thanks

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any comments from Great Viv Richard ??? :) will be intresting to see what he says about it!

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Yousuf’s amazing run-spree
S Rajesh
November 30, 2006

The year 2006 has been a spectacular one for Mohammad Yousuf. It started off with a 199-ball 173 against India at Lahore, and since that knock, he hasn’t looked back, finishing with an aggregate of 1788, beating Viv Richards’s tally of 1710 quite handily to wrest the record of most number of runs in a calendar year.

Begin as you mean to go, they say, and Yousuf has followed that maxim well. After starting off with that hundred at Lahore, he followed it with another hundred at Faisalabad, and only narrowly missed a hat-trick of hundreds, falling for 97 at Karachi.

Younis Khan makes it a one-two for Pakistan on the top of the list, but his tally of 1179 is well short of Yousuf’s aggregate. Ricky Ponting is in third place, but with two more Tests to go against England, he must fancy his chances of getting the 122 runs he needs to take the second spot.

Yousuf finally ended the year with an amazing nine hundreds from 11 Tests and, with his 124 at Karachi, became only the sixth Pakistan batsman to score a hundred in each innings of a Test, joining Hanif Mohammad, Javed Miandad, Wajahatullah Wasti, Yasir Hameed and Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Yousuf scored plenty of runs in all the series he played in this year, but he saved his best for last - his series aggregate of 665 makes him the third-highest scorer in a three-Test series, behind Graham Gooch and Brian Lara.

Though this was only a three-Test series, Yousuf still amassed enough runs to be among the top run-scorers for Pakistan in any series. Through the course of this innings, he went past several names, but fell short of Mudassar Nazar’s aggregate of 761 in six Tests against India in 1982-83. It’s interesting to note that Yousuf figures twice in the top four series aggregates for Pakistan, with both those performances coming in back-to-back performances this year.

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:mash:

May he continue with this splendid form

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Here’s the complete list
Tests - 1000 Runs in a Calendar Year
http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/1000_RUNS_IN_CALENDAR_YEAR.html](http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/1000_RUNS_IN_CALENDAR_YEAR.html)

Yousuf improved his test average from 48.57 (4614 runs/62 tests) to 56.65 (6402 runs/73 tests) this year, a remarkable achievement

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great achievement by Yousuf!

let's hope he scores a century in his next innings as well, as that will mean he scored 7 100s in 6 tests (Don scored 6 in 6; Yousuf now has 6 in 5)

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Ponting has scored 1058 runs with 6 hundreds in 7 tests this year. He has three more tests (or a max. of 6 innings) this year. The last (5th) Ashes test is next year and therefore does not count

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Players/PlayerYears.asp?PlayerID=2041

**Ashes **
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ausveng/content/series/227733.html?template=schedule

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^ So theoretically speaking, there still is a possibility of Ponting breaking both records specially 3 more 100s is not that difficult for Ponting in 6 innings if we go by his current form. Although I wanted to see Aus beaten but now I want Aus to bat only once and beat Eng in all 3 matches :D

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Mubarka wey Mubaraka!!!

MoYo is da “MAN” !!!
:jhanda:

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Great job Yousuf :k: You have set a new milestone for others now, hope you break this record yourself next year :k:

Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan :jhanda:

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Pakistanis are new to this, we never expected this to happen. We always wanted match winner. Now we not only have a reliable player who is not only stylish and consistant but also never puts himself above team. I think as time goes on, people will start understanding the magnitude of this feat.

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Actually this caught me by surprise, until last week i didnt even know that Mo Yo was reaching such a milestone. This is great!