Bhai, say whatever but this is a very poor analogy. Scoring a double hundred when the series is not just active but also turning the game on its head is far different to scoring runs when the series is already done and the rest is a formality.
Now I know you will say that if Pakistan had lost the Lords test, it would have been a dead rubber inning but the fact that the YK inning came out in what was the most precarious situation of the match as well as the series makes it special.
Do you think Australians would have let Cook to play such kind of inning if the series was alive and was in such kind of situation where that inning could have made a difference?
There is a huge difference in performing in dead rubber and showing up on such occasion which couldnt have been better than that, irrespective of how much a batsmen is struggling.
Younis had nothing to do with the series being active heading into the fourth Test. Pakistan could easily have been 3-0 down at that point, because Younis had zero contribution to the wins at Lord's and Edgbaston. He did not fail in the first three Tests because he knew that he would score a match-winning double-hundred in the fourth Test.
If it was a three match series, his double-hundred would not have come in the third Test; if it was a two match series, his double-hundred would not have come in the second Test.
Similarly, had the other England players should up, Cook's double-hundred at Melbourne could have come in a situation where England were only one Test down or level with Australia. However, unlike Younis, he did not have the luxury of his teammates carrying him to wins in the other matches.
It is not about Australian letting him score if the series was alive etc., players of the calibre and experience of Cook and Younis will eventually score big after failing for a few games. Players like them know how to make it count when things go their way after a string of low scores.
In Melbourne, Cook was helped by the absence of Starc, who had troubled him considerably in the series. He was able to get into his grove and capitalized. At the Oval, Younis was helped by the fact that he got to face Moeen early in his innings, allowing him to settle at the crease - a set Younis is as dangerous as any batsman.
It was Younis' good fortune that the series was alive going into the fourth Tests, because considering how pathetic he was, he fully deserved to have lost all three games at an individual level. Pakistan were playing with ten men.
Had the other players not showed up, his Oval knock would have been a dead rubber effort like his Sydney 170 and Cook's Melbourne 244.
He flopped in that series because failing completely for the first three Tests in a four match series is not acceptable, and that is why Misbah won the MoS Award for Pakistan. His hundred on the opening day at Lord's set the tone of the series, and showed that Pakistan were up for the challenge.
It was by far the most important knock of the series, especially when Pakistan were struggling at 70/3 when he arrived at the crease. Without his innings, we could have been all out for 200 and the complexion of the series would have been completely different. Although he tailed off after that game, he left a bigger impression on the series than Younis.
