40 Facts About Younus Khan

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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.

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Younus Khan is the only Test cricketer in the history of the game to score a century in all 11 countries that have hosted Test matches.

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Younus 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.

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4.

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

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

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

Younus 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.

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9.

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

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10.

Younus 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.

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Younus 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.

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12.

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

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13.

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

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14.

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

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15.

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

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16.

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

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17.

Younis Younus 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.

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18.

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

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19.

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

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20.

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

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21.

Younis Younus 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.

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22.

Younus 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.

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23.

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

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24.

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

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25.

Younus 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.

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26.

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

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27.

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

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28.

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

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29.

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

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30.

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

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31.

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

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32.

Younus 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.

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33.

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

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34.

Younus 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.

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35.

Younus 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.

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36.

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

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37.

Younus Khan scored seven hundreds and 48 fifties with an average of 31.

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38.

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

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39.

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

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40.

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

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