Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat (born 20 May 1982 in Lahore) is a Pakistani cricketer who has played 20 Tests and 26 One Day Internationals for Pakistan, opening the batting in 47 of his 49 international innings. When in form, Farhat is an excellent player of the pull shot. However, he has the tendency to fall for one too many. A fine player of the drives either side of the wicket Farhat made his senior debut aged 15 in a one-day match for Lahore City against Malaysia, together with three other players who went on to play Test cricket (Taufeeq Umar, Bazid Khan and Kamran Akmal). Three years later, in February 2001, Farhat made his One Day International debut, against New Zealand in Auckland, scoring five runs in a chase of 150 to win. After the tour of New Zealand, where Farhat played three Tests and three ODIs, he was sent back to domestic cricket before returning against Australia in the third Test of the 2002–03 series, where he made 29 and 18 in an innings defeat. However, he was retained for the home two-Test series against South Africa in 2003–04, where he scored 235 runs including a maiden Test century in a 1–0 series win, second behind fellow opener Taufeeq Umar. A month later, Farhat played in an ODI-only series against New Zealand, which Pakistan won 5–0, and Farhat made three fifties along with his second international century, ending with 348 runs at a batting average of 69.60, once again the second-highest amount of runs — this time behind Yasir Hameed. The season was rounded off with another century, this time against India, where he made 101 to help Pakistan gain a 202-run first-innings lead and eventually won the match by nine wickets. However, Farhat tallied 81 runs in the other two matches, which Pakistan lost to lose the series 1–2. Farhat was less impressive the following season, however, and in four Tests, two against Sri Lanka and two against Australia, he only passed fifty twice, ending the season with 199 runs at 24.87 before the selectors left him out for the third Test of the series with Australia. In September 2004, just before the 2004–2005 season, he had been dropped from the ODI side following the 2004 Champions Trophy, as he had failed to pass 40 with any of his last ten innings, and that included 38 not out against the non-Test nation of Kenya, 20 against ODI debutants Hong Kong and 24 against bottom-ranked Bangladesh. He continued to score heavily in the domestic competitions and a century in a practise game against the visiting Indian team was rewarded with a place in the squad to take on India in the Test series (2006). He returned to Test cricket in style, with an important half century in the deciding third Test at Karachi. His brother Humayun Farhat has also played International cricket for pakistan
Full Name: Imran Farhat
Date of Birth: May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Major
Team: Pakistan, Biman Bangladesh, Habib Bank Limited, ICL Pakistan XI,
Lahore, Lahore Badshahs, Lahore Eagles, Lahore Lions, Pakistan Reserves
Playing Roll: Batsman
Batting Style: Left
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Nick Name: Romi
Current age 29 years 14 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.
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