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Loading ...It’s hard to argue against that weight of runs. What an amazing effort.
If anyone wants to post a breakdown of his scores during the year it would save me making the effort to check for myself. 
A moment of applause, please
By Scott 2 years ago, at the end of November Leave a comment on this post
Congratulations to Pakistan’s Mohammad Yousuf, who has gone past Sir Vivian Richards’ long standing record for the most Test runs in a year. Well done that man. As I write, he’s still at the crease, so he could still push the mark beyond 1,750 runs. A remarkable achievement!
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10 Responses to “A moment of applause, please”
November 30th, 2006 at 8.56 am
November 30th, 2006 at 11.34 am
Just to show you the top three, Yousuf at the top, followed by Viv whose record was held for 30 years and followed by Ponting’s run for 2005.
Year M I NO Runs HS Av 100s
Mohammad Yousuf 2006 11 19 1 1788 202 99.33 9
IVA Richards 1976 11 19 0 1710 291 90.00 7
RT Ponting 2005 15 28 5 1544 207 67.13 6
I have to say, Pakistani batting has never been famous for its consistency, and infact, that has been their biggest weakness.
Watching Yousuf play with such ease and class, I have to say, I am just very impressed with this man. We in Pakistan are all proud of him!
Siraj Shaikh
November 30th, 2006 at 12.42 pm
Yet still not really classed among the great batsman of the era!
November 30th, 2006 at 1.17 pm
Well, interesting you say that, because we were comparing him to Javed Miandad and Inzamam (with other batsmen in Pakistan atleast), and people still rate the other two much higher than him.
I think the one thing that made Miandad (and other ‘great batsmen of the era’) great was their match winning abilities…. coming out in a difficult situations and batting in great pressure. But I also blame the amount of cricket played nowadays. I wonder what others think about this.
May I just say, Yousuf has still a lot of cricket left in him. He may not be a great batsman as yet, but certainly a good, classy player we have seen for a long time. Good enough to break the 30-year old record!
December 1st, 2006 at 3.03 pm
So the test series down here finally gets some mention, I thought you guys had forgotten there was more cricket being played then just the Ashes, [:)]..anyway, very pleased, and proud. The record couldn’t have fallen to nicer person; Yousuf’s humility and understated-ness, not to mention his publicity shyness is a contrast to the way most modern day cricketers are these days and might well be one of the reasons why he wont be rated alongside the best in his era, but it makes me very proud of him all the same. I’m more happy for him as a person today then as a cricketer.
And well done to the team as a whole, we’ve done well to beat a spirited but inconsistent WI side after being under pressure following an early CT exit and the Oval saga.
December 1st, 2006 at 6.35 pm
Superb batsman. He deserves to wear the crown that took 30 years to wrestle from one of the greatest ever.
December 1st, 2006 at 7.12 pm
and he made some well deserved ka-ching..
prizes announced in the presentation ceremony..
1 million pkr from the president of pakistan
0.5 million pkr from governor of sindh province
1 million pkr from ARY Digital
1 million pkr from Ten Sports
1 million pkr from Fortune Group
0.5 million some random cricket lover
0.5 million from United Mobile
0.1 million from some doctor
Honda City Car
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6.2 million pkr - approx. 102,000 USD
the presentation party was soooo large… typically pakistani presentation ceremony.. good thing the aussies weren’t there.. they’d have to call in the australia ‘a’ team in too to push all those people away..lol..
December 1st, 2006 at 8.03 pm
Yeah Mani, as I said that’s whats the pleasing thing about the man, his humbleness. Did you look at this face at the presentation ceremony? It was almost as if he was embarrassed by all the attention! Now that goes down so well with me.
December 2nd, 2006 at 3.53 am
zainub.. i did have a slight problem with:
1 million from the president
0.5 million from governor sindh..
i hate it when these guys hand out money like that… very unstructured… just on a whim..
kind of like kings in the middle ages..
then again pak is ruled by a dictator.. so what can u expect.. and even the civilian government would have done the same.. arghh..
prizes from the government should be standardized not based on how much the guy was pleased by your performance..
how about yousuf’s face when rameez raja said mohammad younis.. by mistake.. lol.. that was hilarious.. not only that.. he made another mistake by calling him mohammad asif… hilarious..
December 2nd, 2006 at 4.01 am
Mani.. I agree, these huge smums of money being handed out…to patronise (and also in a country where thousands live below the poverty line!)..
But I guess the culture of encouraging and organising sports in a consistent and structured manner, will take a lot more time.
Let us just hope that Yousuf’s humility will be a lesson to many other in the cricket who have come and then ruined their careers by their ego (shoaib, r u listening?)…and also a lesson to many other youngsters that it is hard work (and hard work only) that pays off.
This was a good day for Pakistan cricket…
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