Yusuf Pathan

**Yusuf Pathan**
Personal information

Yusuf Pathan
Full name	Yusuf Khan Pathan
Born	17 November 1982 (age 29) Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat, India
Nickname	Lethal Weapon, Steeler, Run Machine, The Beast,
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Role	All-rounder
Relations	Irfan Pathan (brother)
International information
National side	India
ODI debut(cap 172)	10 June 2008 v Pakistan
Last ODI	10 March 2011 v Netherlands
ODI shirt no.	28
Only T20I(cap 18)	24 September 2007 v Pakistan
T20I shirt no.	28
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2001/02–present	Baroda
2008 – 2010	Rajasthan Royals
2011 - present	Kolkata Knight Riders
Career statistics
Competition	ODIs	FC	List A	T20I
Matches	54	40	89	9
Runs scored	808	1,997	1,792	122
Batting average	24.48	35.03	30.37	24.40
100s/50s	2/3	4/10	3/9	0/0
Top score	123*	183	148	33*
Balls bowled	768	7,161	3,055	89
Wickets	20	96	64	4
Bowling average	37.64	33.98	40.26	29.50
5 wickets ininnings	0	7	2	0
10 wickets in match	n/a	1	n/a	n/a
Best bowling	3/49	6/47	5/52	2/23
Catches/stumpings	7/–	43/–	36/–	5/–
Source: CricketArchive, 17 October 2009

Yusuf Pathan (Urdu: یوسف خان پٹھان) (born 17 November 1982) is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a powerful and aggressive right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer. Yusuf Pathan is considered to be one of the cleanest hitters of the cricket ball.

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1 Career
2 International Centuries
- 2.1 One Day International Centuries
3 References
4 External links

[edit]Career

Following his impressive performances in the 2007 Deodhar Trophy and the Inter-state domestic Twenty20 competition held in April 2007, Pathan was made a part of the Indian squad for the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship, held in South Africa in September 2007. He made his Twenty20 international debut in the final against Pakistan. He opened the batting for India in the match, and scored 15 runs in the process.

After a good domestic season in 2007/08, he was signed by the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League for USD 475,000 (INR 1.9 crore). In the 2008 IPL season, he scored 435 runs and took 8 wickets. He recorded the season's fastest half century (from 21 balls) against the Deccan Chargers, and was also the Man of the Match in the final against the Chennai Super Kings.

Following his good showing in the IPL, he was selected for the Indian one-day team. After IPL, though he played all the games in the Kitply Cup and Asia Cup, he got to bat only four times and could not perform well with both bat and ball. He was later dropped from the series against Sri Lanka. He performed well in domestic circuit and impressed the selectors and was selected for the England ODI series in November. He scored a fifty off just 29 balls in the second ODI against England in Indore, on his 26th birthday.

Yusuf had made his One-Day Internationa debut for India against Pakistan at Dhaka on 10 June 2008. He became a regular feature of the national One-Day International team, but is yet to make his test debut.

Even though Pathan could not repeat his first IPL performance in the second season, he was selected in the Indian team to play the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 championships in England. In the second of India's Super 8 matches, he made an unbeaten 33 from 17 balls against England. Despite his knock, the team lost the game and crashed out of the tournament without making it to the semi-finals.

In late-2009, Pathan was dropped from the limited overs team after a series of unproductive performances and the all-rounder's position was taken over by Ravindra Jadeja.

In the final of the 2010 Duleep Trophy cricket tournament, Pathan scored a hundred in the first innings and a double hundred in the second and led his team West Zone to a three wicket win over South Zone. Pathan made 108 in the first innings and an unbeaten 210 from 190 balls in the second innings to help his team chase down a mammoth target of 536. This became a world record for the highest successful run chase in first-class cricket history.

Yusuf Pathan was named as the vice-captain of Rajasthan Royals during IPL 3. On 13 March 2010, Pathan scored a century off 37 balls, in an Indian Premier League match against Mumbai Indians. The innings also included record 11 consecutive hits to the boundary (6, 6, 6, 6, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4).

After that knock where he scored the fastest IPL century, his Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warnedescribed his innings as one of the best innings he has even seen in his career and also compared Yusuf Pathan with his country-mate Andrew Symonds as two of the cleanest hitters of the ball.

On 7 December 2010, Pathan's power hitting sealed a memorable 5-wicket win for India. Pathan clobbered the New Zealand attack with his aggressive innings, smashing an unbeaten 123 from 96 balls and shared an unbroken 133-run partnership with Saurabh Tiwary to guide India to a huge target of 316 with seven balls to spare and give the hosts a 4-0 lead in the series. He was named man of the match for this effort. The all-rounder clubbed seven fours and seven sixes on the way to his maiden one-day century to help the hosts overhaul New Zealand's challenging 315-7 with seven balls to spare at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium inBangalore.

At the awards distribution ceremony he stated that "this knock will boost my career". Indian captain Gautam Gambhir said "I have always said Pathan can finish games on his own, and that's what he did today, I had never seen something like this before. But I knew till the time Pathan was there, we would win the game."

New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori said "It was a great game of cricket, we were in the game, but Pathan was pretty amazing and took the game away from us."

In the MTN ODI series against South Africa, before the 2011 World Cup, he gave a stand-out performance in a match in petoria where he scored a brilliant 105 in 70 deliveries (comprising 8 fours and 8 sixes). Even though India lost the match, his performance was complimented heavily. During this knock, he reached his century off 68 balls which is the sixth fastest by an Indian and the second fastest by an Indian outside the subcontinent. Thanks to his stream of good performances, he made it to the Indian team for 2011 World Cup.^[7] and also scored 100 for just 37 balls vs Mumbai Indians in IPL 2010 Though Yusuf did not have a great World Cup, he ended up having the winner's medal and the honor of holding the World Cup aloft.

In the 2011 IPL auction, he was bought for a whopping $2.1 million by Kolkata Knight Riders.

He was named in the Indian team for 2012 Asia Cup to be held in Bangladesh.