Pakistani Cricket Players: Imran Farhat

Imran Farhat Biography

Source(google.com.pk)
Full name Imran Farhat

Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab

Current age 31 years 282 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     166     286     15     11789     308     43.50             28     51             144     0
List A     183     181     12     5980     164     35.38             13     29             70     0
Twenty20     54     54     2     1396     115     26.84     953     146.48     2     8     186     35     22     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     166         5782     3317     110     7/31         30.15     3.44     52.5         2     0
List A     183         2873     2496     84     4/13     4/13     29.71     5.21     34.2     3     0     0
Twenty20     54     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     National Bank of Pakistan v Habib Bank Limited at Islamabad, Jan 22-25, 2014 scorecard
List A debut     1997/98
Last List A     National Bank of Pakistan v Habib Bank Limited at Islamabad, Jan 27, 2014 scorecard
Twenty20 debut     Karachi Dolphins v Lahore Lions at Lahore, Apr 25, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20     Faisalabad Wolves v Lahore Eagles at Rawalpindi, Feb 11, 2014 scorecard
Recent matches
Bat & Bowl     Team     Opposition     Ground     Match Date     Scorecard
23     L Eagles     v Wolves     Rawalpindi     11 Feb 2014     T20
2     L Eagles     v P Panthers     Rawalpindi     10 Feb 2014     T20
4     L Eagles     v Leopards     Rawalpindi     7 Feb 2014     T20
2     Habib Bank     v National Bnk     Islamabad     27 Jan 2014     LA
40, 59     Habib Bank     v National Bnk     Islamabad     22 Jan 2014     FC
0/28, 10     Habib Bank     v ZTBL     Lahore     19 Jan 2014     LA
1/29, 0*     Habib Bank     v ZTBL     Lahore     14 Jan 2014     FC
0     Habib Bank     v Pakistan TV     Lahore     11 Jan 2014     LA
300*, 2/4     Habib Bank     v Pakistan TV     Lahore     6 Jan 2014     FC
0/11, 35     Habib Bank     v Sui Gas     Lahore     3 Jan 2014     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.
Test discard opener Imran scored 300 for Habib Bank Limited (HBL) in the ongoing President’s Trophy tie against Pakistan Television (PTV) at the Gaddafi Stadium to follow his 308 for Lahore Ravi against Peshawar last season.

And Hanif, who scored his brace of triple-tons by first scoring 337 for Pakistan against West Indies in the Bridgetown Test in 1957-58 season before amassing the-then world record 499 while playing for Karachi against Bahawalpur the next season, was impressed by Imran’s feat.

“Imran scored triple centuries in back-to-back domestic seasons and that shows his talent,” the Little Master told Dawn on Thursday. “He has the potential and the spark to be a strong candidate for a recall to the Pakistan squad.”

Imran was part of the Pakistan team for their tour of Zimbabwe in August last month, but was unable to travel with the team to take care of his ailing wife. He has since been ignored by national selectors.

“I am happy that another cricketer joined this club and I wish more batsmen from Pakistan not only join it but go further beyond by scoring more than two triple centuries,” Hanif, one of the most prolific batsmen in world cricket, added.

Meanwhile, Hanif disclosed that although the Pakistan Sports Board and the Pakistan Cricket Board remained in touch with him after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had taken a notice to help him financially, nothing had happened as yet.

Hanif, who was recently operated in England for cancer, is in need of financial help. The Prime Minister has ordered the PSB to immediately help the former cricketer out of crisis.“I played with Nawaz Sharif at the Bagh-i-Jinnah Cricket Ground in Lahore and am well aware of his passion for the game and I’m thankful he took a notice for me,” he said.