Top 10 retirements from international cricket in 2017

1. Younis Khan

Younis Khan was one of Pakistan's finest batsmen

Instability, uncertainty and controversy are a few words that are often associated with Pakistan cricket. Amid this chaos, men like Younis Khan walk in with calmness and authority to restore balance.

A fighting test century on debut meant that pundits and former players earmarked Younis for greater things from the offset. And he did live up to the promise as he became the first ever Pakistani batsmen to go past 10,000 test runs, a haul punctuated with 34 hundreds which included five double hundreds and a triple hundred.

The former Pakistan captain was equally effective in ODIs, a format in which he scored more than 7000 runs. Though he didn't exactly set the stage on fire in T20Is, he led his team to the ICC World T20 title in 2009. His career tally of 286 catches is a testimony to his safe pair of hands.