Top 5 Cricketers of the Week: Jan 4th – Jan 9th

#5 Younis Khan

Younis Khan remains as classy as ever

At the SCG, Younis Khan became the first Test batsman to score centuries in 11 different countries. He was also his country’s lone fighter, scoring an unbeaten 175* in a total of 315 in reply to Australia’s massive first innings total of 538. Khan, who looks in fine form and physical shape at 39, is 23 short of 10000 runs with an average of 53 and 34 Test centuries, equalling Sunil Gavaskar’s tally of Test tons.

Khan is also one of the rare batsmen to average over 50 both at home and in away games. Khan had a mediocre tour until this spectacular hundred, his first in Australia, having crossed 50 just twice in 4 Tests in New Zealand and Australia. He boasts of one of the best conversion rates in the game with more Test tons than half-centuries.