Imran Farhat

Imran Farhat

Pakistan

Full name Imran Farhat
Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 24 years 285 days
Major teams Pakistan, Biman Bangladesh, Habib Bank Limited, Lahore, Pakistan Reserves
Also known as Romi
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

Statsguru

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	110	189	12	7303	242	41.25			15	32			107	0
List A	111	109	8	3272	138	32.39			7	14			49	0
Twenty20	11	11	1	363	115	36.30	220	165.00	1	2			6	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	27	295	218	3	2/69	2/69	72.66	4.43	98.33	0	0	0
ODIs	33	86	89	5	3/10	3/10	17.80	6.20	17.20	0	0	0
First-class	110	4226	2377	84	7/31		28.29	3.37	50.30		2	0
List A	111	2211	1899	70	4/13	4/13	27.12	5.15	31.58	3	0	0
Twenty20	11	214	261	18	3/26	3/26	14.50	7.31	11.88	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland - Mar 8-12, 2001
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland - Feb 17-18, 2001
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Multan - Dec 13, 2006
First-class span	1998/99 - 2006/07
List A span	1997/98 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

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.