Pakistan's former Cricket Captain Mohammad Yousuf has announced his retirement from international cricket. He blamed his country's cricket establishment for forcing him to take the decision. Yousuf told a press conference at the Karachi Press Club today, that he decided to retire from international cricket, because of the conditions he had faced in recent times. Thirty-five-year-old Yousuf was the captain on Pakistan's recent tours to New Zealand and Australia where the team lost heavily. After that, a Committee was set up by the Pakistan Cricket Board to probe into the team's poor performances. The committee recommended indefinite bans on Yousuf and his predecessor Younus Khan, charging them with infighting and bringing the team morale down. Yousuf has been Pakistan's batting mainstay for quite awhile. The right-hander, then a Christian called Yousuf Youhana, made his Test debut in Johannesburg in 1998 and went on to play 88 Tests, amassing 7, 431 runs at an average of 53.07. He played 282 ODIs as well, scoring 9, 624 runs with an average of 42.39.