Factbox on Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf, who set world records for most centuries and test runs in a calendar year in the third test against West Indies on Thursday.
BORN: 27 August 1974 in Lahore.
TEAMS: Pakistan, ACC Asian XI, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Pakistan International Airlines, Water and Power Development Authority.
TESTS: 73 matches, 6,402 runs, 23 centuries following his debut v South Africa at Durban in 1998. Test average of 56.65.
Highest score 223 v England at Lahore in December 2005.
ODIs: 226 matches, 7,580 runs, 11 100s, 51 fifties following his debut v Zimbabwe at Harare, 1998.
Ended 2006 with a record aggregate of 1,788 runs and nine hundreds in the year, including a world best 665 runs in a three-test series against West Indies in November-December.
Only Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq have scored more test runs for Pakistan than the player formerly known as Yousuf Youhana until he converted to Islam last year.
A stylish yet orthodox batsman, he made a disappointing start to his test career with scores of five and one.
His captain on that tour, Rashid Latif, kept faith with him and described Yousuf as the best Pakistani batsman to emerge in the modern era after Inzamam-ul-Haq. Scored his first test hundred in his seventh test, 120 not out against Zimbabwe at Lahore.
Captained Pakistan in three tests, twice on the tour of Australia in 2004/05 when he scored a hundred in Melbourne after Inzamam pulled out with a back injury.
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