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Imran Farhat Biography

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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.
mran Farhat is an opening batsman with considerable skill. However, while he scores a bucketful of runs in domestic cricket, international success for extended periods of time has somehow eluded him. For someone who has been around since 2001, Farhat has managed only a few appearances for Pakistan
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.
Farhat’s finest moment came against New Zealand at Napier in 2009-10 when he carried his bat through an innings. Pakistan were bowled out for 223, but Farhat had batted through, scoring 117 not out when nobody else crossed 25.
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.
Farhat has an admirable First Class record — over 11,700 runs at 43.50 with 28 centuries and 51 fifties with a top score of 308. At a time when quality openers were scarce in Pakistan, he was never quite out of national reckoning, but with the emergence of the likes of Mohamad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad and Asad Shafiq at the top for Pakistan, it looks difficult for Farhat to make another come-back.
Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 39 75 2 2327 128 31.87 4819 48.28 3 14 340 4 40 0
ODIs 37 37 1 1114 107 30.94 1591 70.01 1 7 120 14 13 0
T20Is 5 5 0 41 14 8.20 45 91.11 0 0 7 0 3 0
First-class 144 249 13 9643 242 40.86 23 41 134 0
List A 141 139 10 4670 164 36.20 11 22 63 0
Twenty20 22 22 1 596 115 28.38 404 147.52 1 3 78 20 11 0
Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 39 15 427 284 3 2/69 2/69 94.66 3.99 142.3 0 0 0
ODIs 37 8 116 110 6 3/10 3/10 18.33 5.68 19.3 0 0 0
T20Is 5 - - - - - - - - - - - -
First-class 144 5380 3062 103 7/31 29.72 3.41 52.2 2 0
List A 141 2765 2398 83 4/13 4/13 28.89 5.20 33.3 3 0 0
Twenty20 22 14 292 382 24 5/26 5/26 15.91 7.84 12.1 0 1 0
Matches
Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
5, 3/56, 15 Punjab (Pak) v Khyber-Pak Lahore 9 Mar 2011 First-class
4, 128 Punjab (Pak) v Baluchistan Lahore 3 Mar 2011 First-class
65, 0/1 Punjab (Pak) v Federal Lahore 25 Feb 2011 First-class
75, 2/77 Punjab (Pak) v Sind Lahore 19 Feb 2011 First-class
0 Habib Bank v National Bnk Lahore 8 Feb 2011 List A
0/10, 89 Habib Bank v WAPDA Lahore 6 Feb 2011 List A
1/17, 12* Habib Bank v PIA Rawalpindi 3 Feb 2011 List A
164, 1/28 Habib Bank v Leopards Islamabad 1 Feb 2011 List A
1, 1/8 Habib Bank v K Dolphins Rawalpindi 30 Jan 2011 List A
150 Habib Bank v Sui Gas Islamabad 28 Jan 2011 List A