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Full name Imran Farhat
Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 26 years 199 days
Major teams Pakistan,Biman Bangladesh,Habib Bank Limited,ICL Pakistan XI,Lahore,Lahore Badshahs,Pakistan Reserves
Also known as Romi
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Relations Father-in-law - Mohammad Ilyas,Brother - Humayun Farhat
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
27
51
1
1655
128
33.10
3331
49.68
2
11
255
1
30
0
ODIs
33
33
1
974
107
30.43
1379
70.63
1
6
110
12
11
0
First-class
117
199
12
7976
242
42.65
17
36
114
0
List A
121
119
8
3629
138
32.69
7
18
56
0
Twenty20
11
11
1
363
115
36.30
220
165.00
1
2
45
14
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
27
10
295
218
3
2/69
2/69
72.66
4.43
98.3
0
0
0
ODIs
33
7
86
89
5
3/10
3/10
17.80
6.20
17.2
0
0
0
First-class
117
4678
2637
90
7/31
29.30
3.38
51.9
2
0
List A
121
2468
2135
75
4/13
4/13
28.46
5.19
32.9
3
0
0
Twenty20
11
10
214
261
18
3/26
3/26
14.50
7.31
11.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Mar 8-12, 2001 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town, Jan 26-28, 2007 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Feb 17-18, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v West Indies at Multan, Dec 13, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1998/99
Last First-class
Sialkot v Habib Bank Limited at Muridke, Nov 1-3, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
1997/98
Last List A
Habib Bank Limited v National Bank of Pakistan at Lahore, Mar 25, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Karachi Dolphins v Lahore Lions at Lahore, Apr 25, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Karachi Dolphins v Lahore Eagles at Karachi, Dec 24, 2006 scorecard
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. He is Pakistan's Test opener, for now. He was dropped from the ODI team following Pakistan's tour to South Africa and was left behind for the World Cup as well as the Abu Dhabi series against Sri Lanka and the short tour to Scotland.
Farhat, however, was awarded a central contract which he duly signed but was then released upon his request and went on to sign a contract with the Indian Cricket League.
Osman SamiuddinAugust 2007
