Imran Farhat
is a Pakistani cricketer who has played 20 Tests and 26 one-day Pakistan International, opening the batting in 47 of his 49 international entries.
When fit, Farhat is an excellent player making traction. However, he has a tendency to fall into one too many. A good player of the units on either side of the window Farhat made his debut with the absolute age 15 in a game a day for the city of Lahore against Malaysia, along with three other players who were playing cricket Test (Taufeeq Umar Khan and Kamran Akmal Bazid). Three years later, in February 2001, Farhat made his debut in one day international against New Zealand in Auckland, scoring five runs in a chase of 150 to win. After the tour of New Zealand where he played three Tests and ODIs Farhat three, was sent back to domestic cricket before returning to Australia in the third test series 2002-03, where he made 29 and 18 in a loss of shifts. However, he was recruited to the home of two test series against South Africa in 2003-04, scoring 235 runs, including a maiden Test century in the 1-0 win the series in second place behind teammate Omar Taufeeq opening.
A month later, Farhat played in ODI series against New Zealand only, Pakistan, who won 5-0, and Farhat fifty three years ago, along with its second century international, finishing with 348 runs at a batting average 69.60, again, the second highest number of runs - this time behind Yasir Hameed. The season was completed with another century, this time against India, where he made 101 to help Pakistan get a 202-entry the first race lead and eventually won the match by nine wickets. However, Farhat scored 81 runs in the other two parties, who lost Pakistan lost the series 1-2.
Farhat was less impressive the following season, however, and in four tests, two against Sri Lanka and two against Australia, which only passed fifty twice, finishing the season with 199 runs at 24.87 before that the selectors left him out of the third test series with Australia. In September 2004, just before the 2004-2005 season, he had fallen from the ODI side after the 2004 Champions Trophy because he could not go to 40 with any of their last ten entries, which included 38 not against non-Test nation of Kenya, 20 against ODI debut in Hong Kong and 24 against the bottom-ranked Bangladesh.
Profile 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.
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
Imran Farhat
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