Mohammad Yousuf will be remembered for his unhurried elegance and grace at the crease as much as for the runs he scored, but over his 12-year career he built up pretty imposing numbers as well. With a Test tally of 7431 runs, he is third in the all-time list for Pakistan, next only to Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq. In ODIs he is in second place with 9458 runs, behind Inzamam.
Yousuf scored only six runs in two innings in his debut Test, and in his first year, his four fifties and maiden century all came against Zimbabwe. Over the first three years of his international career he had his moments, but lack of consistency meant his average just about touched 40 after his first 27 Tests.
The graph started going up in 2001, when a maiden double-century against New Zealand in Christchurch was followed by a century and another double against Bangladesh early the next year. Over the next six years beginning 2001, he had a golden run in which he scored 18 centuries in 46 Tests, including nine during an unbelievable 2006, a year in which he scored 1788 runs in 11 Tests, which remains the most by a batsman in a single calendar year.
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