Imran Farhat Biography
Imran Farhat
born 20 May 1982 ) is
a Pakistani cricketer who has played over 30 Tests and One Day Internationals
for Pakistan,
opening the batting in most of his international innings. Amongst his fans, he
is affectionately known as 'parchi'.A month later, Farhat played in an ODI-only
series against New Zealand, which Pakistan won 5–0, and Farhat made three
fifties along with his second international century, ending with 348 runs at a batting average of 69.60, once again the
second-highest amount of runs – this time behind Yasir Hameed. The season was rounded off with
another century, this time against India,
where he made 101 to help Pakistan gain a 202-run first-innings lead and
eventually won the match by nine wickets. However, Farhat tallied 81 runs in
the other two matches, which Pakistan lost to lose the series 1–2.Farhat was
less impressive the following
season, however, and in four Tests, two against Sri Lanka
and two against Australia,
he only passed fifty twice, ending the season with 199 runs at 24.87 before the
selectors left him out for the third Test of the series with Australia. In
September 2004, just before the 2004–2005 season, he had been dropped from the
ODI side following the 2004 Champions
Trophy, as he had failed to pass 40 with any of his last ten
innings, and that included 38 not out against the
non-Test nation of Kenya,
20 against ODI debutants Hong Kong and 24 against Bangladesh.He
continued to score heavily in the domestic competitions and a century in a
practise game against the visiting Indian team was rewarded with a place in the
squad to take on India in the Test series (2006). He returned to Test cricket
in style, with an important half century in the deciding third Test at Karachi.
He scored a brilliant unbeaten century in the final test against New Zealand
in 2009. His brother Humayun Farhat has
also played International cricket for Pakistan.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.
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