da lvbet： Mohammad Yousuf’s outstanding run in 2006 has pushed his rating points up to among the ten best of all time
da marjack bet： Cricinfo staff04-Dec-2006
Mohammad Yousuf: 1788 runs, and plenty of rating points in 2006 © AFP
Mohammad Yousuf’s outstanding run in 2006 has pushed his rating points up to among the ten best of all time. Yousuf currently has 933 points, a mark bettered by only nine batsmen in the history of Test cricket. Ricky Ponting leads the current rankings with 940 points, and after his hundred at Adelaide, that rating will go up even higher. He needs just six points to go past Len Hutton’s mark and become second only to Don Bradman.Both Yousuf and Ponting have had an amazing run of form this year. Yousuf broke numerous records – the most prominent being the highest aggregate in a calendar year (1788), and the most number of hundreds in a year (nine). His dream run means he is now 51 points clear of the third-placed Rahul Dravid.Ponting, meanwhile, has been equally prolific in 2006. His century at Adelaide was his seventh in eight Tests this year, and he has already become the second-highest run-getter this year with two matches still to play.
Don Bradman 961 February, 1948 Len Hutton 945 March, 1954 Jack Hobbs 944 August, 1912 Peter May 941 August, 1956 Ricky Ponting 940 November, 2006 Garry Sobers 938 January, 1967 Viv Richards 938 March, 1981 Clyde Walcott 938 June, 1955 Matthew Hayden 935 November, 2002 Mohammad Yousuf 933 November, 2006
