Younus - 27 hundreds, only 28 fifties

90 Number of years since a batsman made three consecutive Test hundreds against Australia before Younis Khan achieved this feat in the first innings. Former England great Herbert Sutcliffe was the last to have done this, during the Ashes series of 1924-25.
span style="font-size:28px;">50 Younis Khan's batting average in each of the four innings of a Test. He achieved this distinction when he was on 81. The only other batsmen who average 50-plus in all four innings are Don Bradman and Herbert Sutcliffe.


4 Number of Pakistan players, including Younis Khan, who have made three consecutive 100-plus scores in Tests. The other three are Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar Nazar and Mohammad Yousuf.


30 Number of years since all of Pakistan's top-four batsmen have made 35-plus scores in a Test innings against Australia. The last time this happened was at Adelaide in December 1983.


2 Number of consecutive 50-plus opening partnerships for Pakistan. The openers put together 71 in the second innings of the Dubai Test and 57 today. This is only the third time in the last eight years that Pakistan's openers have posted back-to-back 50-plus partnerships.


18 Number of threes scored by Pakistan's batsmen in the first innings so far, the most in a Pakistan Test innings since 2001. The second most threes for Pakistan, 17, also came at Abu Dhabi, against Sri Lanka in 2011.


6 Number of hundreds scored by Pakistan batsmen in two Tests this series. Pakistan batsmen scored only six hundreds against Australia between 1999 and 2010.


71.6 Younis' strike rate during his innings of 111* of 155 balls. This is Younis' third best strike rate for an innings of 100 or more. The highest strike rate for any of his 27 100-plus knocks is 81.8, during his innings of 149* off 182 balls against New Zealand at Auckland.


0.96 Younis' ratio of hundreds to fifties in Tests. He has scored 27 hundreds and 28 fifties. This is the fifth best conversion ratio among players who have scored at least 20 Test hundreds.

Converting 50s to 100s (players with min. 20 tons)

Player    Mat    Inns    Runs    Avg    100    50    100sper50
DG Bradman    52    80    6996    99.94    29    13    2.23
M Azharuddin    99    147    6215    45.03    22    21    1.05
ML Hayden    103    184    8625    50.73    30    29    1.03
MJ Clarke    107    182    8245    50.89    27    27    1.00
Younis Khan    93    165    7930    53.22    27    28    0.96
WR Hammond    85    140    7249    58.45    22    24    0.92
PA de Silva    93    159    6361    42.97    20    22    0.91
RN Harvey    79    137    6149    48.41    21    24    0.88
GS Sobers    93    160    8032    57.78    26    30    0.87
HM Amla    79    137    6415    51.32    22    27    0.81

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