Imran Farhat

Imran Farhat Biography

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Full name Imran Farhat

Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab

Current age 31 years 199 days

Major teams Pakistan, Biman Bangladesh, Habib Bank Limited, ICL Pakistan XI, Lahore, Lahore Badshahs, Lahore Eagles, Lahore Lions, Pakistan Reserves

Also known as Romi

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak

Relation Father-in-law - Mohammad Ilyas, Brother - Humayun Farhat

A gifted young left-handed opener who threatened at one stage to solve Pakistan's perennial opening conundrum, Imran Farhat had a brief spell in the Pakistan side after success with the national under-19 and A sides. Farhat also evokes Saeed Anwar but only fleetingly; he bludgeons rather than times his runs. He was rather too cavalier in his early appearances in the Test arena, and was promptly discarded after the tour to New Zealand in 2000-01. However, he tightened his game and achieved much more success in the 2003-04 season. Tempering his impressive array of shots with better defensive technique, Farhat scored a deluge of runs in the home series against South Africa and New Zealand, being involved in a record four successive hundred partnerships with Yasir Hameed in the one-day internationals against New Zealand. He also notched up his first century in both Tests and ODIs during this season, and then went on to score a vital 101 in Pakistan's victory against India in the Lahore Test. But since the India series, he has fallen away. A mediocre series at home to Sri Lanka and away to Australia saw him falter, especially with the emergence of the other left-handed opener, Salman Butt. When Pakistan included only one specialist opener in the squad for the series against England in 2005 - Butt - seemingly it confirmed that Farhat, temporarily, was out of national reckoning. But as an opener in Pakistan, you are never out of national reckoning and sure enough Farhat was back for the final Test against India, where he scored a fifty. That performance saw him on the plane to Sri Lanka and an average series. But with openers becoming as rare as dinosuars in Pakistan, he was retained for the summer tour to England, where he again produced some mixed results. Despite failures in the first two Tests, a broken finger and a spate of dropped catches, he came back to score a cavalier 91 in the final, fateful Oval Test. Runs against West Indies at home were followed by a barren patch in South Africa. A first away hundred followed by a patient half-century in the Napier Test of 2009 has set him up for a long sojourn in the Test side. His ODI career has however hit roadblocks since he was dropped after an indifferent run of scores in 2006.

 Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	40	77	2	2400	128	32.00	4970	48.28	3	14	348	4	40	0
ODIs	58	58	2	1719	107	30.69	2489	69.06	1	13	190	16	14	0
T20Is	7	7	0	76	19	10.85	70	108.57	0	0	14	0	3	0
First-class	160	277	13	11232	308	42.54			27	48			140	0
List A	178	176	12	5891	164	35.92			13	29			67	0
Twenty20	51	51	2	1367	115	27.89	922	148.26	2	8	183	35	21	0

 

 Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	40	15	427	284	3	2/69	2/69	94.66	3.99	142.3	0	0	0
ODIs	58	8	116	110	6	3/10	3/10	18.33	5.68	19.3	0	0	0
T20Is	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	160		5710	3272	107	7/31		30.57	3.43	53.3		2	0
List A	178		2831	2457	84	4/13	4/13	29.25	5.20	33.7	3	0	0
Twenty20	51	23	389	510	27	5/26	5/26	18.88	7.86	14.4	0	1	0

 

Career statistics

 

Test debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Mar 8-12, 2001 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Centurion, Feb 22-24, 2013 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Feb 17-18, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI	Pakistan v South Africa at Birmingham, Jun 10, 2013 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, Feb 5, 2010 scorecard
Last T20I	Bangladesh v Pakistan at Dhaka, Nov 29, 2011 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1998/99
Last First-class	Habib Bank Limited v United Bank Limited at Islamabad, Nov 17-20, 2013 scorecard
List A debut	1997/98
Last List A	Habib Bank Limited v United Bank Limited at Islamabad, Nov 22, 2013 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Karachi Dolphins v Lahore Lions at Lahore, Apr 25, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Habib Bank Limited v Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited at Lahore, Dec 1, 2013 scorecard

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