Yousuf and Sana Mir inducted into PCB Hall of Fame
Yousuf, who set a world record with 1,788 Test runs in 2006, was chosen by a six-member voting panel, while Sana Mir entered automatically after her ICC induction.
Former Pakistan batter Mohammad Yousuf and former women's team captain Sana Mir have been inducted into the PCB Hall of Fame for 2025, the Pakistan Cricket Board said. Yousuf was chosen through a vote by a six-member panel. Mir entered automatically under the board's induction rules after she became the first Pakistan woman inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2025.
The panel comprised PCB Hall of Famer Zaheer Abbas, former captain Ramiz Raja, former Test cricketer Bazid Khan, former women's captain Urooj Mumtaz, and cricket journalists and analysts Saleem Khaliq and Sohail Imran.
Yousuf played for Pakistan from 1998 to 2010, scoring 17,300 runs in 381 international matches with 39 centuries and 97 half-centuries. In 90 Tests he made 7,530 runs at an average of 52.29 with 24 hundreds and a best score of 223. In 288 one-day internationals he made 9,720 runs at 41.71 with 15 centuries and a highest score of 141 not out. He also played three T20 internationals.
His 2006 season underpins the induction: 1,788 runs in 11 Tests with nine centuries, which broke Sir Vivian Richards' 30-year-old record for the most Test runs in a calendar year. In the three-Test home series against West Indies in 2006 he scored 665 runs, a Pakistan record for a three-Test series, passing Zaheer Abbas' previous mark of 583. He received the ICC Test Player of the Year award in 2007.
Mir played from 2005 to 2019 and appeared in 226 internationals, 120 ODIs and 106 T20Is, taking 240 wickets and scoring 2,432 runs. Her 151 ODI wickets came at an economy rate of 3.70 with best figures of five for 32, and she scored 1,630 runs in the format. In T20Is she took 89 wickets at an economy rate of 5.51 with a best of four for 13 and made 802 runs. In October 2018 she became the first Pakistan woman to reach the top of the ICC Women's ODI Bowling Rankings. She was the first Pakistan woman to take 100 ODI wickets and is among the women cricketers with 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in ODIs.
She captained Pakistan in 137 internationals, 72 ODIs and 65 T20Is, led the side to Asian Games gold medals in 2010 and 2014, and captained at the 2013 and 2017 World Cups and at the 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 T20 World Cups.
PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi said: "On behalf of the Pakistan Cricket Board, I congratulate Mohammad Yousuf and Sana Mir on their induction into the PCB Hall of Fame. Both have represented Pakistan with great pride and their performances have earned them a special place in the history of Pakistan cricket."
The two join a list of PCB Hall of Famers: Abdul Qadir, AH Kardar, Fazal Mahmood, Hanif Mohammad, Imran Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Javed Miandad, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Mohammad, Saeed Anwar, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Younis Khan and Zaheer Abbas.
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