Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Pathan Khan

Personal information
Full name	Yusuf Pathan Khan Ali
Born	(1982-11-17) 17 November 1982 (age 34) Baroda, Gujarat, India
Nickname	Aaloo
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Role	All-rounder
Relations	Irfan Pathan
International information
National side	India
ODI debut (cap 172)	10 June 2008 2008 v Pakistan
Last ODI	18 March 2012 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	28
T20I debut (cap 18)	22 September 2007 v Australia
Last T20I	30 March 2012 v South Africa
T20I shirt no.	28
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2001/02–present	Baroda
2008–2010	Rajasthan Royals
2011–present	Kolkata Knight Riders
Career statistics
Competition ODIs FC List A T20I Matches 57 52 134 22 Runs scored 810 2,855 2,979 236 Batting average 27.00 39.65 33.10 18.15 100s/50s 2/3 7/12 7/13 0/0 Top score 123* 210* 148 37* Balls bowled 1,490 8,529 4,471 305 Wickets 33 124 94 13 Bowling average 41.36 31.49 40.10 33.69 5 wickets in innings 0 10 2 0 10 wickets in match n/a 2 n/a n/a Best bowling 3/49 6/47 5/52 2/22 Catches/stumpings 17/– 53/– 52/– 9/–
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 6 January 2013

Yusuf Pathan (Urdu: یوسف خان پٹھان; Hindi: युसुफ पठान) (born 17 November 1982) is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a powerful and aggressive right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His younger half brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer.

Yusuf Pathan was born in Baroda, Gujarat, to a Pathan family. He is the older half brother of Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan. Yusuf married Mumbai based physiotherapist Afreen on 27 March 2013. His wife gave birth to a boy on 17 April 2014.

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.

Following his good showing in the IPL, he was selected for the Indian one-day team. After IPL, though he played all the games in the Kitply Cup and Asia Cup, he got to bat only four times and could not perform well with both bat and ball. He was later dropped from 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.

Yusuf had made his One-Day International debut for India against Pakistan at Dhaka on 10 June 2008. He became a regular feature of the national One-Day International team, but is yet to make his test debut.

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