95% people think Younus is Pakistan’s best-ever Test batsman

In reply to a poll questions 289 people said yes, while only 15 said no

Nearly 95% of Pakistanis thinks veteran batsman Younus Khan is the best-ever Test batsman produced by the country.

While replying to a poll run by The Express Tribune, 289 people said yes to the questions which inquire ‘Is Younus Khan Pakistan’s best-ever Test batsman’. Meanwhile, only a small number — 15 people — replied with a no.

Younus became Pakistan’s first-ever batsman to score 10,000 Test runs in the ongoing Test series against West Indies, which is going to be his last outing for the country as well.

The 39-year-old also holds the record for scoring Test centuries in 11 different countries, the only one to do so.

Also, he led the Pakistan team which won the 2009 World T20.

He has represented Pakistan in 117 Test, 265 ODIs and 25 T20Is scoring 41 centuries in total and 83 half-centuries in all formats.

Misbah on Younus

Pakistan Test captain Misbahul Haq, the 42-year-old right-handed batsman, believes Younus is the kind of player you can place complete faith in, thus making him the one of the greatest willow-wielders produced by the country.

 “Through all the years that I’ve known him, he has remained, at heart, the same,” Misbah wrote for ESPNcricinfo. “He was very firm with the principles he based his cricket and life on. Those are unchanged: that he’s always kept his affairs very organised, that he has maintained strict discipline about his career, that he has wanted to come across a certain way on the field, that he will always make newer players comfortable, that he will make greater effort with them. He is still like this. The main pillars and principles on which a man stands have always been very clear for him.”

Misbah further highlighted the reasons for the success Younus got at the international level. “His disciplines, his routines, on the field, in training, in his personal life — it is what has made him a great batsman,” he said. “That and his belief — he always believed, in every situation, whatever the circumstances. Can’t make hundreds in the fourth innings? I’ll do it. Can’t chase that much in the fourth innings? I’ll do it. Green pitch? Let me bat on it. That’s where his greatness begins.”

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