 Yousuf is congratulated after hitting his century in Karachi |
Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf has become the first batsman to score eight Test centuries in a single calendar year. He scored 102 in the third Test against West Indies to beat the previous record of seven, achieved by Viv Richards and Sri Lanka's Aravinda da Silva.
He is now 46 runs off Richards' record of 1,710 runs in a year.
Yousuf said: "I am delighted to be able to break Richards' record and to be ranked alongside him. He was the greatest player of the century."
Yousuf said he loved watching Richards play but used Pakistan's Javed Miandad as a template for his own batting.
"Richards has been my favourite batsman, but my inspiration has always been Miandad. I have styled myself on him."
And out of the eight tons his has scored in 2006 he ranked the 202 in the first Test against England at Lord's as his most satisfying.
"I rate that knock very highly because it came at the home of cricket and it was a turning point for me to get a big score in an away Test."
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