Asif believed Younis' Pakistan record of Test centuries would remain intact for quite some time.
“His [Pakistan] record of 27 hundreds is destined to stand for a very long time. More importantly he has infused confidence into a brittle middle order and given that the World Cup is only a few months away, his supreme effort could not have been better timed,” Asif emphasised.
“Perhaps it may even be argued that his feat is that much more admirable given that he was batting in a line-up that has still to prove itself at the international level,” the former Pakistan skipper said of Younis who on Friday in Abu Dhabi converted his century into double hundred.
“Records are meant to be broken and the longer Younis plays the more records he will smash. And he will because he is playing better than those whose records he is breaking,” Asif opined about the right-handed batting maestro who on Friday also became the third Pakistan batsman — after legends Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq — to cross 8,000-run mark in Test cricket.
Interestingly, Younis after his marathon 213-run knock on Friday also lifted his Test runs tally exactly equal to that of great Sir Gary Sobers (8,032) of the West Indies with both of them having featured in 93 Tests.
