Mohammad Yousuf Picks His 'Fab-Four' Batsmen Of The Current Era

Mohammad Yousuf is one of the greatest batsman Pakistan cricket has ever produced. Previously known as Yousaf Youhana, the right-handed batsman, along with fellow teammate Inzamam Ul-Haq spearheaded Pakistan’s batting for a better part of the first decade of the 21st century.

With the onset of the global pandemic that is the novel COVID-19, former as well as current cricketers are using this time to engage with their fans via Question-Answer session on social media.

Yousaf joined the bandwagon recently and his Twitter timeline saw an avalanche of questions on a wide range of topics concerning this beautiful game. One of the debates that has been going on these days is around the Fab-Four of modern-day batting.

In the past six-seven years, the likes of Virat Kohli, Steven Smith, Kane Williamson and Joe Root have been unchallenged members of the conveted group but the emergence of Pakistan’s Babar Azam has somewhat changed the dynamics in the past 18 months or so.

One of the fans asked Mohammad Yousuf, who in the great batsman’s view are current members of the ‘Fab Four’ and the Pakistani legend had no hesitation in including Babar Azam at the expense of England’s Test captain Joe Root in the coveted list.

“Baber..kohli..smith…williamson” Yousaf replied to a fan asking him to name his ‘Fab Four’.

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Mohammad Yousuf picks Babar Azam in the ‘Fab Four’

Talking about the ‘Fab Four’, Indian captain Virat Kohli is well ahead of the pack as far as being the most consistent batsman across all the three formats of the game is concerned. Kohli is the only batsman to average in excess of 50 in all three formats and already has 70 centuries to boast of. His contemporaries, according to Mohammad Yousuf’s ‘Fab-Four’ list in Steven Smith, Kane Williamson and Babar Azam have 35, 34 and 16 centuries respectively.

Joe Root is the leading run-scorer in Test cricket among all active batsman but the English Test captain and it was a bit surprising to not see his name in Yousaf’s list. But the fact that Babar Azam had emerged by leaps and bounds across all three formats in the past 2 years cannot be ignored as well.

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Watch Mohammad Yousuf’s reply here:

Your Fab Four in the world right now????

— Abdul Hadi (@AHadiahmed17) May 2, 2020

Baber..kohli..smith…williamson

— Mohammad Yousaf (@yousaf1788) May 2, 2020