Owais Mughal
Mohammad Yousuf completed 8000 runs in One Day Internationals (ODIs) today. He is Pakistan’s 3rd and World’s 17th batsman to reach this cricket milestone.
The list of Pakistan’s top 10 batsmen in terms of career runs is as follows. The number in parenthesis is their World Ranking in terms of ODI career runs.
1.(3) Inzamam-ul-Haq: 11739 runs at 39.52 runs per innings
2.(12) Saeed Anwar: 8823 runs at 39.21
3.(17) Mohammad Yousuf: 8028 runs at 41.16
4.(20) Javed Miandad: 7381 runs at 41.7
5.(21) Saleem Malik: 7170 runs at 32.88
6.(30) Ijaz Ahmed: 6564 runs at 32.33
7.(38) Rameez Raja: 5841 runs at 32.09
8.(49) Shahid Afridi: 5072 runs at 23.37
9. Aamer Sohail: 4780 runs at 31.86
10. Abdul Razzak: 4465 runs at 29.96
M. Yousuf has reached 7000 runs in Test Cricket today. 3rd Pakistani and 34th person in the World to do so.
As of today, Pakistani batsmen with 5000+ runs in Test Cricket are:
1. Javed Miandad: 8832 runs at an average of 52.57
2. Inzamam-ul-Haq: 8830 runs at 49.60
3. Mohammad Yousuf: 7000 runs at 55.11
4. Saleem Malik: 5768 runs at 43.69
5. Younis Khan: 5241 runs at 50.39
6. Zaheer Abbas: 5062 runs at 44.79
Well done Yousuf. We need more batsmen like you.
As for Afridi I don’t think he deserves to be in this company.
Today, Mohammad Yousuf surpassed Saeed Anwar to become second most prolific scorer for Pakistan in ODIs. Following is the top 10 list of Pakistani batsmen in terms of career runs in ODIs.
1. Inzamam-ul-Haq: 11739 runs at 39.52 runs per innings
2. Mohammad Yousuf: 8873 at 43.07
3. Saeed Anwar: 8823 runs at 39.21
4.Javed Miandad: 7381 runs at 41.7
5.Saleem Malik: 7170 runs at 32.88
6.Ijaz Ahmed: 6564 runs at 32.33
7.Rameez Raja: 5841 runs at 32.09
8.Shahid Afridi: 5369 runs at 23.75
9. Younis Khan: 4537 runs at 32.40
10. Abdul Razzak: 4465 runs at 29.96