The legendary batsman and the former captain of Pakistan Mohammad Yousaf recently joined cricket statistician Mazher Arshad for a candid interview and talked about his career, Pakistan cricket, and some of the toughest opponents that he had faced. 
  
Firstly, he was asked to make an all-time XI and he said that it won't be possible for him to include all the deserving players in the list because there were many players during his playing career that could have made it to the list of All-time greats.
  
"You can't make an all-time XI of just 11 players when you look at the kind of players we had back in our era then, it is totally impossible to make a team of 11 players because there were so many match-winners at that time," he said.
  
Yousaf picked Shane Warne and Saqlain Mushtaq as the two toughest spin bowlers he has ever faced. He also said that the Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan was extremely difficult to handle but he had a controversial action as well.
  
"You won't see a spin bowler surviving with that kind of action in modern-day cricket. Murali was tough to handle but Saqlain and Warne were also too good," he added.
 

The legendary batsman was also asked about his favorite batting partners and he stated that he played most of his cricket alongside Inzamam-ul-Haq and Saeed Anwar and he also enjoyed their presence around him.
  
"Saeed Bhai was outstanding. If you look at the greatest batsmen that Pakistan has produced then Saeed Anwar will surely come out at the top. I also played a lot of cricket with Inzi Bhai and he is also one of the greatest batters of Pakistan," Yousaf added.
 

In 2006, Mohammad Yousaf broke the record of most Test runs in a calendar year that was previously held by the West Indies great Sir Vivian Richards (1710). The right-handed batsman accumulated 1788 runs in 2006 with the help of 9 centuries - a record itself. 
  
However, Yousaf feels that breaking the record of Sir Viv Richards doesn't mean that he is the better batsman and it all happened because of the help from the Almighty. 
  
"Sir Viv Richards is the best player of the century and most of his contemporaries agree that he was way ahead of other batsmen of his time. Luckily I broke the record of King Viv but I am not even close to him as a batsman," Yousaf concluded.