Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf set a world record for the highest number of test runs in a calendar year on the fourth day of the third and final test against the West Indies in Karachi yesterday.

Yousuf broke West Indian Vivian Richards' record of 1,710 runs in 11 matches set in 1976, by reaching 1,788.

Yousuf, who has scored nine hundreds in 2006 in 11 tests, also established a record of most hundreds in a year held jointly by Richards and Sri Lankan Aravinda de Silva who made seven hundreds each.

Australian Clem Hill was the first batsman in test history to achieve the feat of making 1,000 test runs in a year when he scored 1,060 in 1902.

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