LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan’s most successful Test batsman and former captain Younis Khan has been appointed as the men’s national team batting coach for the upcoming tour of England, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday.
In addition to Younis, the PCB has also appointed a wrist spinner and a veteran of 52 Tests Mushtaq Ahmed as the team’s spin bowling coach and mentor for the three-Test and three-T20Is series, which will be played in August-September.
The pre-series and series details will be announced in due course.
The appointments have been made to provide Head Coach Misbah-ul-Haq and Fast Bowling Coach Waqar Younis the necessary and essential resources that can help them further uplift the performance of the side.
Furthermore, and as part of the tour arrangement, additional players will be sent to England, which makes it even more important to have equally capable coaches to provide best training and preparation opportunities to the players.
The 42-year-old Younis Khan scored 10,099 runs at over 52 in 118 Tests from 2000 to 2017. This included a career-best 313 against Sri Lanka in Karachi in 2009, which lifted him to No.1 position in the ICC rankings.
No feeling can match better than the feeling of serving Pakistan again. Thank you @TheRealPCB for honoring me with an opportunity to be back in the dressing room as a batting coach. I will make sure than no stone remains unturned to bring the best out of these talented players. pic.twitter.com/g5ENcvK2eR
— Younus Khan (@YounusK75) June 9, 2020
Against England, Younis Khan holds an equally impressive record.
In 16 innings of nine Tests in England, the champion batsman scored 810 runs at over 50 with two centuries (218 at The Oval in 2016 and 173 at Headingley in 2006) and three half-centuries. In two Tests in Pakistan and six in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), he scored a total of 616 runs at just under 50 with two centuries (127 and 118 in Dubai) and one half-century.
With 139 catches in Tests, Younis Khan cemented himself as Pakistan’s best fielder and 13th overall in the history of the game.
Separately, Younis Khan had a season with Yorkshire in the 2007 English County Championship in which he amassed 824 runs in 13 matches at an average of 48.47.
