Pakistani Crickt Players: Imran Farhat

Imran Farhat Biography

Source Link (google.com.pk)
Full name Imran Farhat
Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 31 years 222 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
Imran Farhat
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 162 280 13 11254 308 42.14 27 48 140 0
List A 179 177 12 5933 164 35.95 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 162 5710 3272 107 7/31 30.57 3.43 53.3 2 0
List A 179 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 Water and Power Development Authority at Islamabad, Dec 21-23, 2013 scorecard
List A debut 1997/98
Last List A Habib Bank Limited v Water and Power Development Authority at Islamabad, Dec 26, 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
Recent matches
Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
42 Habib Bank v WAPDA Islamabad 26 Dec 2013 LA
0, 6 Habib Bank v WAPDA Islamabad 21 Dec 2013 FC
16 Habib Bank v Port Qasim A Sialkot 13 Dec 2013 FC
2 Habib Bank v Sui Gas Lahore 1 Dec 2013 T20
9 Habib Bank v Port Qasim A Lahore 29 Nov 2013 T20
5 Habib Bank v ZTBL Lahore 28 Nov 2013 T20
32 Habib Bank v WAPDA Lahore 27 Nov 2013 T20
87 Habib Bank v United Bank Islamabad 22 Nov 2013 LA
18, 0/9, 32 Habib Bank v United Bank Islamabad 17 Nov 2013 FC
0 Habib Bank v Khan RL Rawalpindi 13 Nov 2013 LA
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