Mohammad Yousuf

Mohammad Yousuf born in a Christian family as Yousuf Youhana on August 27th, 1974 in Lahore, Punjab province of Pakistan is a prolific Pakistan cricket player. He changed his name to Mohammad Yousuf since he got converted to Islam in 2005.
Mohammad Yousuf is an aggressive right-handed batsman and holds the world record of most Test runs scored in a single calendar year in 2006. Mohammad Yousuf scored 1788 Test runs with nine centuries from 11 Tests in 2006 and broke the 30-year-old world record of West Indies batsman Sir Vivian Richards, who scored 1710 runs from 11 Tests in 1976. Incidentally Mohammad Yousuf broke the record of Sir Vivian Richards playing against West Indies at Karachi.

Mohammad Yousuf made his Test debut against South Africa at Durban in February 1998 and made his One-day debut against Zimbabwe in March 1998 at Harare. His career best test score came at Lahore, where he scored 223 against England in December 2005 and followed it up with another 202 in July 2006 against England.
Mohammad Yousuf has scored 23 centuries and accumulated more than 6700 Test runs and became the third Pakistan batsman behind Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq to score over 6000 runs