Full name Imran Farhat
Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 35 years 339 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
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 | 201 | 343 | 19 | 13725 | 308 | 42.36 | 33 | 62 | 164 | 0 | ||||
List A | 203 | 201 | 12 | 6719 | 164 | 35.55 | 14 | 33 | 77 | 0 | ||||
T20s ![]() |
62 | 62 | 2 | 1538 | 115 | 25.63 | 1079 | 142.53 | 2 | 8 | 210 | 35 | 27 | 0 |
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 | 201 | 5861 | 3382 | 113 | 7/31 | 29.92 | 3.46 | 51.8 | 2 | 0 | |||
List A | 203 | 3028 | 2637 | 84 | 4/13 | 4/13 | 31.39 | 5.22 | 36.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
T20s ![]() |
62 | 23 | 389 | 510 | 27 | 5/26 | 5/26 | 18.88 | 7.86 | 14.4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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 Lahore Whites at Karachi, Dec 15-17, 2017 scorecard |
List A debut | 1997/98 |
Last List A | Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited v Habib Bank Limited at Karachi, Jan 9, 2018 scorecard |
T20s debut | Karachi Dolphins v Lahore Lions at Lahore, Apr 25, 2005 scorecard |
Last T20s | Karachi Region Blues v Multan Region at Rawalpindi, Sep 14, 2015 scorecard |
Bat & Bowl | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match Date | Scorecard |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
32 | Habib Bank | v Sui Northern | Karachi | 9 Jan 2018 | LA |
67 | Habib Bank | v Sui Sthn Gas | Karachi | 7 Jan 2018 | LA |
31 | Habib Bank | v Khan RL | Karachi | 5 Jan 2018 | LA |
63 | Habib Bank | v WAPDA | Hyderabad (Sind) | 3 Jan 2018 | LA |
12 | Habib Bank | v Pakistan TV | Karachi | 1 Jan 2018 | LA |
0, 0/5 | Habib Bank | v United Bank | Karachi | 30 Dec 2017 | LA |
30 | Habib Bank | v National Bnk | Karachi | 28 Dec 2017 | LA |
2, 5, 0/10 | Habib Bank | v Lahore W | Karachi | 15 Dec 2017 | FC |
6, 13 | Habib Bank | v Lahore Blues | Karachi | 9 Dec 2017 | FC |
8, 48 | Habib Bank | v Sui Northern | Karachi | 3 Dec 2017 | FC |
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.
Osman Samiuddin
December 2009