| Records/Achievements | - First Pakistani cricketer to score 9,000+ test runs in Test Cricket
- 33 Test centuries, the highest by a Pakistani
- 6 double centuries in Test matches
- Scored a triple century in Test matches against Sri Lanka in 2009
- Only Pakistani to score a Test hundred against every other Test playing nation and the 12th International player to achieve this
- Record of most away centuries for a Pakistani (23)
- Only Pakistani cricketer with 100+ catches in Test cricket
- Second batsman after Herbert Sutcliffe to score 3 consecutive centuries against Australia
- Scored more than 9,500 test runs at an average of around 52, including 33 centuries and 31 half-centuries
- Only Pakistani player in the 14-member 10,000 Test runs club with 10,099 Test runs
- 34 Test centuries, the highest by a Pakistani batter
- Retired with a Test average of 52.05
- Scored a triple century (313 runs) in Test matches against Zimbabwe in 2013, the highest individual score by a Pakistan skipper
- Only Test cricketer in history to score a century in all 11 countries that have hosted Test matches
- 7 ODI centuries and 48 half-centuries with 7,249 ODI runs at an average of 31.24 across 265 matches (2000-2015)
- 25 T20I matches with 442 runs at a strike rate of over 121 and 2 half-centuries
- 139 Test catches, 135 ODI catches, and 12 T20I catches
- Led Pakistan to victory in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20
- Named in the ICC World ODI XI in 2008
- Scored a triple century (313*) in his first Test as captain against Sri Lanka in 2009
- First batsman to surpass Sir Donald Bradman's 29 Test centuries with his 30th Test century (171*) against Sri Lanka in 2015
- First batsman in Test history to score five centuries in fourth innings, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar and Ricky Ponting's four
- Topped ICC Test Batting Rankings in February 2009 with 880 points, third highest by a Pakistani
- One of four players to score a Test triple century for Pakistan
- On 23 April 2017, he became the first Pakistani and 13th batsmen ever to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket
- He became the oldest and sixth fastest batsmen to reach the 10,000 run milestone in relation to innings played
- On 25 June 2015, he became the fifth Pakistani cricketer to play 100 Test matches
- On 13 October 2015, he became Pakistan's highest run scorer in Test cricket, breaking Javed Miandad's record of 8,832 runs
- Retired with 10,099 Test runs and a Test average of 52.05
- Scored 34 Test centuries, the most by any Pakistani batter
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