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Pakistan maestro Younis Khan to retire from general cricket post Windies series
- Updated: April 8, 2017
Younis Khan
Karachi: Two days after his skipper Misbah-ul-Haq announced his retirement from general cricket, maestro Pakistan batsman Younis Khan on Saturday also motionless to pierce a fate down to his stately 17-year career after a arriving three-Test rubber opposite a West Indies, starting after this month.
“People are job me and seeking me not to make any proclamation to leave though now is a time,” a 39-year-old Younis was quoted as observant by espncricinfo.
“A time comes in each player’s life when he has to confirm and we always attempted my best to offer my county with my conduct high. No actor always stays fit, a proclivity never stays a same, so this is a time when Younis should leave a margin after a arriving array in West Indies.”
Younis, who is usually 23 runs brief of apropos a initial Pakistan batsman to measure 10,000 Test runs suggested that he had designed his retirement in allege though continued on usually to strech a landmark.
“This isn’t something sudden, this was always building adult and few of my tighten friends knew it. Although we had a devise to retire after leading Javed bhai’s (Miandad) runs record, afterwards we was encouraged to finish 10,000 runs so we have motionless to get them,” he said.
“The reason we announced it before palm was people start seeking me for more, they could afterwards ask me to take 11,000 or 12,000 or we might start meditative to strech Sachin’s (Tendulkar) 15,000 runs. Humans can never be confident though we am not in an age to make that far, so we wish people to honour my preference and concede me to do my destiny plans.”
“I always attempted to be a good envoy and offer my nation to take it one step forward,” Younis said. “If I’ve ever finished a mistake in my career, if I’ve lost something, or finished something wrong, greatfully consider of me as one of your possess and pardon me, omit me and let’s pierce on,” he added.
After creation his entrance opposite Sri Lanka during Rawalpindi in 2000, a stylish right-hander went on to play 115 Tests, scoring 9977 runs during an normal of 53.06 with 34 hundreds, a many for a Pakistan batsman.
His best Test measure — 313 opposite Sri Lanka in 2009 — is a third top for Pakistan, after Hanif Mohammad’s 337 and Inzamam-ul-Haq’s 329. He was recently named one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of a Year, following his grant in Pakistan’s 2-2 drawn array in England final summer.