Yousuf scales more peaks

Mohammad Yousuf's outstanding run in 2006 has pushed his rating points up to among the ten best of all time. Yousuf currently has 933 points, a mark bettered by only nine batsmen in the history of Test cricket. Ricky Ponting leads the current rankings with 940 points, and after his hundred at Adelaide, that rating will go up even higher. He needs just six points to go past Len Hutton's mark and become second only to Don Bradman.

Both Yousuf and Ponting have had an amazing run of form this year. Yousuf broke numerous records - the most prominent being the highest aggregate in a calendar year (1788), and the most number of hundreds in a year (nine). His dream run means he is now 51 points clear of the third-placed Rahul Dravid.

Ponting, meanwhile, has been equally prolific in 2006. His century at Adelaide was his seventh in eight Tests this year, and he has already become the second-highest run-getter this year with two matches still to play.