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Younis Khan

Younis Khan
یونس خان
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Personal information
Full name Muhammad Younis Khan
Born (1977-11-29) 29 November 1977 (age 39)
Mardan, Pakistan
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium,
Role Middle-order batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 159) 26 February 2000 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 3-7 January 2017 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 131) 13 February 2000 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 11 November 2015 v England
ODI shirt no. 75
Domestic team information
Years Team
1998–2005 Peshawar
1999– Habib Bank Limited
2005 Nottinghamshire
2006 Peshawar Panthers
2007 Yorkshire (squad no. 75)
2008 Rajasthan Royals
2008/09 South Australia
2010 Surrey
2005/7 – present Abbottabad Falcons
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 115 265 223 345
Runs scored 9,977 7,249 16,790 9,865
Batting average 53.07 31.25 50.42 33.66
100s/50s 34/32 7/48 75/63 12/64
Top score 313 144 313 144
Balls bowled 804 284 3,620 1,145
Wickets 9 3 44 28
Bowling average 54.55 90.33 48.18 39.25
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 2/23 1/3 4/52 3/5
Catches/stumpings 129/– 134/– 231/– 192/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 07 January 2017
Pride of Performance Award Recipient
Date 2010
Country Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Presented by Asif Ali Zardari

Younis Khan (Pashto, Urdu: محمد یونس خان) (born 29 November 1977, Mardan, Pakistan) is a Pakistani cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. He is the highest run scorer for Pakistan in Test cricket and the only Pakistani player to score over 9,000 Test runs. Younis Khan is the first and only test cricketer to have scored a century in all 11 countries to have hosted test matches. He is also the third Pakistani player to score 300 or more runs in an innings. Like Imran Khan, he is most remembered for his leadership as he led Pakistan to victory during the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. Younis also holds the record for most centuries by a Pakistani cricketer in Test cricket.

On 24 October 2015, he became the first Pakistani and 14th overall to score 9,000 runs in Test cricket.

On 10 March 2010, Younis, along with another player, Mohammad Yousuf were axed by the Pakistan Cricket Board from playing for Pakistan in any format for an indefinite period, following an inquiry report which suggested that both players were involved in breaches of discipline by inciting divisions within the team. The ban was lifted three months later. Presently Younis is a key member in the Test match side. By 22 October 2014, Younis reached his 25th Test match century against Australia and made his 26th century in the 2nd innings of the same Test match, the highest number of centuries of a Pakistani Batsman and the only sixth Pakistani batsman to hit centuries in both innings of same Test match. On 25 June 2015, Younis Khan became fifth Pakistani cricketer to play 100 Test matches and on 13 October 2015, he became Pakistan's highest run scorer in Test cricket by breaking previous record set by Javed Miandad of 8,832 runs. Later, on November 11, 2015 following an ODI series against England; he announced his retirement from ODI cricket announcing the first match of the series as his last.


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