LAHORE: Pakistan’s legendary batsman Younis Khan all set to enter centurion club as he is all set to play 100th Test for the country.
Younis Khan will play his 100 Test against Sri Lanka at Colombo starting from Thursday (tomorrow). He will become fifth Pakistan and 62th in the world to achieve this milestone.
Former skipper also a leader of Twenty20 world cup 2009 winning squad.
Great Javed Miandad was the first Pakistani who achieved this landmark. Inzamam-ul-Haq, Wasim Akram and Saleem Malik also played more than 100 test matches for Pakistan.
Younis Khan is the third highest test runs scorer from Pakistan and he is just behind the Javed Miandad (8832) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (8829). Younis Khan is leading century maker for Pakistan and he is also first Pakistan who scored century against all Test playing nations. He scored 29 hundreds so far in his career.
Khan has so far scored 8594 runs in test in 99 test matches with the average of 53.71.
Middle order batsman is just behind the Australian batsman Matthew Hayden to break another record of second leading centurion by scoring 30 test hundreds.