Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Pathan

Personal information
Full name	Yusuf Khan Pathan
Born	17 November 1982 (1982-11-17) (age 26) Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat, India
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off spin
Role	All-rounder
Relations	Irfan Pathan
International information
National side	India
ODI debut (cap 172)	10 June 2008 v Pakistan
Last ODI	11 September 2009 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no.	28
Only T20I (cap 18)	24 September 2007 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2001/02–present	Baroda
2008–present	Rajasthan Royals
Career statistics
Competition	ODIs	FC	List A	T20I
Matches	27	36	83	9
Runs scored	241	1,782	1,737	122
Batting average	26.77	36.36	32.16	24.40
100s/50s	0/2	4/8	3/9	0/0
Top score	59*	183	148	33*
Balls bowled	542	6,563	2,815	89
Wickets	14	89	59	4
Bowling average	35.92	32.59	39.77	29.50
5 wickets in innings	0	7	2	0
10 wickets in match	n/a	1	n/a	n/a
Best bowling	3/56	6/47	5/52	2/23
Catches/stumpings	6/–	37/–	34/–	5/–
Source: CricketArchive, 12 September 2009

Yusuf Khan Pathan (born 17 November 1982 in Baroda) is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a hard hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His half-brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer. Though younger to Yusuf, it was Irfan who entered the Indian team first.

Following his impressive performances in the 2007 Deodhar Trophy and the Inter-state domestic Twenty20 competition held in April 2007, Pathan was made a part of the Indian squad for the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship, held in South Africa in September 2007. He made his Twenty20 international debut in the final against Pakistan. He opened the batting for India in the match, and scored 15 runs in the process.^[1]

After a good domestic season in 2007/08, he was signed by the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League for USD 475,000 (INR 1.9 crore). In the 2008 IPL season, he scored 435 runs and took 8 wickets. He recorded the season's fastest half century (from 21 balls) against the Deccan Chargers, and was also the Man of the Match in the final against the Chennai Super Kings.

Following his good showing in the IPL, he was selected for the Indian one-day team. After the IPL though he played all the games in the Kitply Cup and Asia Cup he got to bat only four times.He couldn't perform very well with the bat and the ball in the Asia Cup and in the Kitply Cup and so he wasn't selected for the Series.against Sri Lanka. He performed well in domestic circuit and impressed the selectors and was selected for the England ODI series in November. He scored a fifty off just 29 balls in the second ODI against England in Indore, on his 26th birthday. ^[2].

Yusuf had made his One-Day International debut for India against Pakistan at Dhaka on 10 June 2008. He has become a permanent feature of the national One-Day International team, but has yet to make his test debut ^[3].

Even though Pathan could not repeat his first IPL performance in the second season, he was selected in the Indian team to play the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 championships in England. In the second of the Super 8 matches of India, he made an unbeaten 33 from 17 balls against England, despite his team losing the game and crashing out of the tournament before the semi-finals.