85 Facts About Younis Khan

Mohammad Younis Khan PP SI is a Pakistani professional cricket coach and former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team in all three formats of the game, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest middle-order batsmen in Test cricket.

Younis Khan holds the record for the most runs and the most centuries scored by a Pakistani in Test cricket history.

Younis Khan is one of the handful of Test batsman in the world with a century conversion ratio of over 50 percent, with 34 centuries and 33 fifties.

Younis Khan led Pakistan to their victory in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, which was their first World Twenty20 title.

Younis Khan became the oldest and sixth fastest batsmen to reach the 10,000 run milestone in relation to innings played.

On 25 June 2015, Younis Khan became the fifth Pakistani cricketer to play 100 Test matches and on 13 October 2015, he became Pakistan's highest run scorer in Test cricket, breaking Javed Miandad's record of 8,832 runs.

Younis Khan retired from all forms of international cricket at the conclusion of the series against the West Indies in May 2017.

Younis Khan's eldest son Owais Khan was born on 26 December 2007.

Younis Khan had to deal with a number of deaths in his family during 2005 and 2006.

Younis Khan was batting in the second ODI against West Indies in Faisalabad when the news of his brother's death reached the team management.

Younis Khan only learned of the situation after he returned to the pavilion at the end of his innings.

Younis Khan immediately left for his home town Mardan and did not participate in any of the remaining matches.

Younis Khan mentioned his grief at the death of Bob Woolmer in March 2007 after Pakistan's exit from the World Cup.

Younis Khan stated that he saw Bob as a father figure after the loss of his own father and that he was able to share many personal thoughts with the cricket coach.

Younis Khan is known to enjoy fishing, when not playing cricket.

Younis Khan scored a century against Queensland Bulls in the first innings of a Sheffield shield match in Brisbane, which helped the Redbacks to win their first Shield match for a year.

In 2005, Younis Khan played county cricket for Nottinghamshire in England.

However, on his one-day debut in the Friends Provident Trophy, Younis Khan hit a superb 100 from 92 balls against Nottinghamshire to lead Yorkshire to victory.

Younis Khan made his first County Championship century, 106 off 151 balls, for Yorkshire against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl in the third match of the season and followed it up with an unbeaten double hundred, 202 off 290 balls, in the second innings to steer Yorkshire to a confident declaration.

In doing so, Younis Khan became the first Yorkshire player to score a century and a double century in the same match.

Younis Khan made a useful contribution bowling during Hampshire's second innings, picking up four wickets for just 52 runs, however despite his and the team's efforts the match ended in a draw.

Younis Khan repeated the feat of an unbeaten double century at Scarborough in a rain-affected drawn match with Kent.

Younis Khan played a superb innings to finish on 217* off just 252 balls with 18 fours and 6 sixes.

Younis Khan left Yorkshire following the 8-wicket drubbing of Glamorgan Dragons.

In 2008, Younis Khan signed with the Indian Premier League and was drafted by the Rajasthan Royals for a bid of US$225,000.

Younis Khan however played only 1 match in the tournament against Kings XI Punjab and scored 1 run.

Younis Khan contributed as a mentor for Peshawar Zalmi in the 2017 PSL season and the 2018 PSL season.

Younis Khan made his international debut in an ODI against Sri Lanka at Karachi in February 2000, and has since played over 250 ODIs for Pakistan.

Younis Khan was one of the few batsmen who retained his place in the team after Pakistan's disastrous World Cup campaign in 2003, but lost it soon after due to a string of poor scores in the home series against Bangladesh and South Africa.

Younis Khan came back for the one-day series against India, but failed to cement a place in the Test side.

Apart from being an accomplished batsman, Younis Khan is a skilled slip fielder and a very occasional leg-spin bowler.

Younis Khan has performed particularly well on foreign grounds, including on tours of Australia, India, England and Sri Lanka.

Apart from his 267 at Bangalore, Younis Khan made 147 at Kolkata in 2005 and a pair of centuries during India's trip to Pakistan in 2006.

Also in 2006, Younis Khan made a century in the third Test against England at Headingley.

Younis Khan is the second fastest Pakistani in terms of innings to reach 4000 Test runs, behind Javed Miandad.

Younis Khan reached the milestone in 87 innings, just one more than Sachin Tendulkar took.

Younis Khan topped the ICC's Test Batting Rankings in February 2009 after an acclaimed innings of 313 in his first Test as captain, in the process of helping save the match for Pakistan.

Younis Khan ranking score of 880 is the third highest achieved by a Pakistani batsmen after Mohammad Yousuf, Javed Miandad and just ahead of Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Younis Khan first led Pakistan Test team against the same West Indies tour in 2005, where regular captain Inzamam was given one-Test ban for showing dissent against India.

Younis Khan turned down the offer, stating he did not want to be a "dummy captain".

Younis Khan blamed the angry reaction by the Pakistani public to the team's early exit from the tournament.

Younis Khan led his team to the ICC World Twenty20 title for the first time by beating Sri Lanka at Lord's.

Younis Khan went on to say that he expects full support from former captain Shoaib Malik whom he called a senior player in the side.

Younis Khan resigned as captain on 13 October 2009 due to a parliamentary investigation into match fixing that was alleged to have taken place during his reign.

Younis Khan dropped a catch of Grant Elliott in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy semi-final.

Younis Khan had a hair-line fracture in his finger prior to the match.

Later PCB Chairman requested Younis Khan to take back his resignation and Younis Khan did it under his conditions.

However, after captaining the team for a three-match series against New Zealand Younis Khan took a break for Test matches in New Zealand and the series in Australia the captaincy was given to Mohammad Yousuf and since then Younis Khan has not captained the national team.

Younis Khan's ban was however overturned three months later in June 2010.

Signs of an improvement in the relationship of the Pakistan Cricket Board and Younis Khan began to emerge after the board contacted Younis Khan to potentially be selected for the tour Against South Africa in October 2010.

On 31 August 2010, the Daily Telegraph in its news article mentioned that Younis Khan was associated with alleged match-fixer Mazhar Majeed.

Younis Khan threatened to sue the Daily Telegraph over the fact that they posted false information about Younis Khan.

The Daily Telegraph admitted that they incorrectly reported that Younis Khan was affiliated with Mazhar Majeed.

On his comeback ODI against South Africa, Younis Khan scored 54 runs.

Younis Khan then confirmed a statement by Pakistan captain Rashid Latif that he had not apologised to the PCB for his actions.

Younis Khan stated that the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt did not ask Younis to apologise either.

Younis Khan played in the two-match Test series against New Zealand and Younis Khan scored 23 in the first innings and was not required to bat in the second innings as Pakistan sealed a 10-wicket victory.

Younis Khan confirmed that he was available to play in all three-formats of the game.

Younis Khan announced that he was no longer in the race for the captaincy After announcing his comeback to Twenty20 cricket Younis was selected for the three match Twenty20 series against New Zealand in December 2010.

On 9 July 2014, Younis Khan has been recalled in one day team for the Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan.

Younis Khan made 177 runs in the first innings of the first Test as Pakistan went on to score 451 runs.

Younis Khan was involved in two hundred-run partnerships as he went on to make a new record for most hundred run partnerships, beating the previous record of Javed Miandad.

Younis Khan was named in the Test XI of the year by Cricbuzz.

Younis Khan's knock of 200* against Zimbabwe at Harare was nominated to be one of the best Test batting performance of the year 2013 by ESPNCricinfo.

Younis Khan surpassed Sir Donald Bradman's haul in his 101st Test match by scoring his 30th Test century against Sri Lanka in third and final Test at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in July 2015.

Younis Khan completed 50 centuries and 15,000 runs in first-class cricket with this ton.

Younis Khan became 12th batsman to score 30 Test centuries, after Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar first scored 30 Test centuries in 1983.

Younis Khan is regarded as one of the best players of spin bowling in the world, being particularly strong on the leg side.

Younis Khan is prone to getting down on one knee and driving extravagantly.

Younis Khan is a skillful infielder, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the third highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket, with the highest success rate.

Younis Khan had been demoted from A category contract to B category contract by Pakistan Cricket Board.

However, after Younis Khan returned to the national setup, he announced that he was willing to play Twenty20 cricket for Pakistan as a senior batsman.

On 11 November 2015, Younis Khan announced his retirement from ODI format saying that the opening match of the Pakistan against England will be his last one.

Younis Khan Played 264 One Day matches scoring 7240 runs.

Younis Khan is currently sixth on the list of highest run getters for Pakistan in ODI cricket.

Younis Khan scored seven hundreds and 48 fifties with an average of 31.34.

At the age of 39, Younis Khan announced his intentions to retire from international cricket after the West Indies tour.

However, in a conversation in Karachi, Younis Khan opened his idea about the retirement, where he can extend his international career, but only if the Pakistan board and team needs him to do so.

Younis Khan played his last international match against West Indies on 10 May 2017 at Roseau.

Younis Khan scored 18 runs in the first innings and 35 runs in the second innings.

On 11 May 2017, ACB announced that Younis Khan will be next coach of Afghanistan national cricket team.

One of the sticking points had to do with finances, while the other was with the job profile, as the PCB had proposed Younis Khan only be a mentor and a coach but he wanted a say in selection as well.

On 2 April 2022, Younis Khan was named as the batting consultant of Afghanistan on a temporary contract for a training camp which lasted 15 days in the UAE.

On 23 March 2010, Younis Khan was awarded the Pride of Performance by President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.

Younis Khan scored 34 Test centuries and 7 ODI centuries.