Younis Khan becomes first Pakistani to score 10,000 Test runs

TIL Desk Sports/ Veteran batsman Younis Khan has become the first Pakistani cricketer to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket as his team reached reach 201-4 in reply to West Indies’ 286-10 on the third day of the rain-affected first Test here at the Sabina Park, Kingston.

Younis, playing in his 116th test match, smashed five boundaries and a six in his gritting knock of 58 (132 balls) and shared a 131-run third-wicket partnership with Babar Azam (72) which gave the tourists an upper hand into the final session of the day.

The 39-year-old, who needed 23 runs at the start of his innings to reach the milestone, swept a delivery from off-spinner Roston Chase in the first over after Tea to the backward square-leg boundary to become the first Pakistani batsman and just the 13th player overall – and the oldest – in the history of the game to scale that summit.

“I thought about bowing out of international cricket three years ago but one of the motivating factors for me to stay was to get to ten thousand runs,” Khan said after the end of the day’s play.