Mohammad Yousuf
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Mohammad Yousuf (formerly Yousuf Youhana) (born August 27, 1974, Lahore, Punjab) is a Pakistani cricketer and member of the Pakistani national cricket team since 1998. He made his Test debut against South Africa at Durban and ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare. He has scored over 6,000 ODI runs at an average of 41.22 (2nd highest batting average among Pakistani batsmen after Zaheer Abbas) and over 4,000 Test runs at an average of 47 (3rd highest batting average among Pakistani batsmen after Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq) with 13 Test centuries. He has the records of scoring most runs without being dissmissed in ODIs 405, against Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe in 2002-03. He has also scored a 23-ball fifty, in ODIs and a 68 ball hundred. In Tests he has scored a 27 ball fifty, which is 3rd fastest by any player. He was top scorer during the successive years of 2002 and 2003 in the world in ODIs. In 2004, he scored a memorable 111 against the Australians in the Boxing Day Test. Yousuf is known better for his ability to score runs at exceptional rate without the use of muscle. Although capable of hitting the ball hard, Yousuf likes to get his runs running between the wickets.
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Conversion
Yousuf was one of the few Christians in the Pakistani cricket team, but announced in September 2005 that he had converted to Islam. He changed his name from Yousuf Youhana to Mohammad Yousuf on his conversion. Some media reports were sceptical of his reasons for conversion, but he claimed that he had embraced Islam three years earlier but had kept it secret due to his wife's insistence who wished to remain a Christian: he eventually convinced her as well and the whole family converted along with him. Throughout his career, he was encouraged to convert by Saeed Anwar, a former Pakistani batsman who also turned toward religion after the death of his daughter.
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