Yusuf Pathan

Personal Profile

Yusuf Pathan

Birth Name:
Yusuf Khan Pathan
Date of Birth:
November 17, 1982
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
Place of Birth:
Baroda, Gujrat, India
Sex:
Male
Hair Color:
Black
Eye Color:
Brown
Nationality:
Indian

Family

Yusuf Pathan

Brother:
Irfan Pathan

Career

Yusuf Pathan

Profession:
Sportsman

Trivia

Yusuf Pathan

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.
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.
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.
He scored a fifty off just 29 balls in the second ODI against England in Indore, on his 26th birthday.
Following his good showing in the IPL, he was selected for the Indian one-day team.
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.
In the 2008 IPL season, he scored 435 runs and took 8 wickets.
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).
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.
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.

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