If Misbah can play at 37, then why not Yousuf? He was hard done by PCB. **In hindsight had Yousuf not accepted the captaincy for that ill-fated tour of Australia in 2009/10 (where we lost every single game), he would still be playing test and ODI cricket for Pakistan IMO
Subcontinent batsmen in Aus, Eng and RSA since Jan 2005
**[TABLE=“class: StoryengineTable”]
[TR=“class: head”]
Batsman
Overall - runs
Dismissals*
Average
v pace - runs
Dismissals*
Average
[/TR]
Sachin Tendulkar
1806
37
48.81
1328
32
41.50
VVS Laxman
1284
36
35.66
943
33
28.57
Rahul Dravid
1263
37
34.13
910
31
29.35
Mohammad Yousuf
1097
21
52.23
797
13
61.30
Kumar Sangakkara
844
20
42.20
647
15
43.13
Salman Butt
796
23
34.60
632
16
39.50
Virender Sehwag
758
28
27.07
617
23
26.82
Imran Farhat
714
29
24.62
647
23
28.13
Sourav Ganguly
698
18
38.77
458
14
32.71
Younis Khan
645
11
58.63
503
8
62.87
Mahela Jayawardene
632
21
30.09
487
21
23.19
Tillakaratne Dilshan
594
14
42.42
465
11
42.27
Thilan Samaraweera
591
15
39.40
435
12
36.25
Gautam Gambhir
525
18
29.16
434
15
28.93
**Overseas batsmen in Asia since Jan 2005
**[TABLE=“class: StoryengineTable”]
[TR=“class: head”]
Batsman
Overall-runs
Dismissals*
Average
v spin - runs
Dismissals*
Average
[/TR]
Hashim Amla
1228
15
81.86
737
8
92.12
Jacques Kallis
1127
13
86.69
720
11
65.45
AB de Villiers
1028
14
73.42
561
10
56.10
Michael Hussey
956
15
63.73
579
10
57.90
Ian Bell
805
26
30.96
391
17
23.00
Kevin Pietersen
759
26
29.19
410
14
29.28
Paul Collingwood
754
16
47.12
409
8
51.12
Alastair Cook
741
19
39.00
404
6
67.33
Andrew Strauss
683
19
35.94
393
10
39.30
Graeme Smith
666
15
44.40
321
10
32.10
Ricky Ponting
614
13
47.23
363
6
60.50
Michael Clarke
500
16
31.25
338
9
37.55
** Only dismissals by bowlers* All stats exclude matches in Bangladesh.
Re: Yousuf and Younis the best Asian batsmen in Aus, SA and England since Jan 2005
yaar yoyo has only performed once and that was in england...and that performance alone bumps his abroad average significantly..take that out and he is as pathetic as any other Pakistan batsman in aus and south africa.... lets do a bit of match....yoyo scored roughly 600 (202, 48, 192, 128) runs in that series against England in 4 innings....subtract that amount from his total and he scored roughly 500 runs in 17 innings....well now his average drops to roughly 29 per innings.......it is even worst than salman butt!!! that says it all.....
Re: Yousuf and Younis the best Asian batsmen in Aus, SA and England since Jan 2005
^ but Yousuf did score those 600 (202, 48, 192, 128) runs afterall, which Salman didn't, couldn't.
Why we have to take out his best performances? To prove that he was worst than Salman?
Re: Yousuf and Younis the best Asian batsmen in Aus, SA and England since Jan 2005
you are absolutely right robert .... spot on..salman didn't and couldn't.... so my comparison with salman was wrong but from my analyses I do wanted to make a point that yoyo record outside Pakistan is not as good as it appeared based on the above table.... but then dravid, laxman, sehwag, jaywardana all of them have a patehitc record as well....and these are so called great players....on the other hand, look at the western players record in asia .... so many of them have average above 44 which is really impressive....
Re: Yousuf and Younis the best Asian batsmen in Aus, SA and England since Jan 2005
Point noted but that is the whole point about (away) batting averages … they even out in the end.
Not saying we should ignore performances in Australia (our nemesis in tests) but then it is also quite remarkable that Younis has been able to maintain such a high average in those countries without doing anything special which proves that he has been consistent atleast over that period
Some of the greatest batsmen don’t even have such good records against every country and/or in every country. It is just not possible. Ponting (career average 53.44) for instance averages 26.48 in India and 38.52 in England. Lara (career average 52.89) averaged 33.00 in India and 36 in NZ
Even great Viv (career average 50.23) averaged just 19.25 in NZ (77 runs in 3 tests)
And why take out Yousuf’s best performances in England in 2006? It is not like he scored big in one test only. He was consistently good (631 runs at 90.14) over the 4 tests, infact outshone Inzi and many English batsmen in that series.
Re: Yousuf and Younis the best Asian batsmen in Aus, SA and England since Jan 2005
Mohammed Yousaf cud have done so much better.... He was a class and PCB has ruined Mohammed yousaf. He is definitely Better than Younis Khan and other players playing Test and ODI for Pakistan rite now.