Imran Farhat Biography
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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. Farhat made his senior debut aged 15 in a one-day match
for Karachi City against Malaysia , together with three other
players who went on to play Test cricket (Taufeeq
Umar, Bazid Khan and Kamran Akmal).
Farhat
started his International Test debut against new Zealand on 8 March 2001 and
begins his ODI career in the same series against new Zealand in 2001 and played
his 1st T20 against
Australia in 2010.
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 Three years later, in February 2001, Farhat
made his One Day International debut,
against New Zealand in Auckland, scoring 20 runs in a chase of 150 to win.
After the tour of New Zealand, where Farhat played three Tests and three ODIs,
he was sent back to domestic cricket before returning against Australia in
the third Test of the 2002–03 series, where he made 30 and 22 in an innings
defeat. However, he was retained for the home two-Test series against South Africa in 2003–04, where
he scored 235 runs including a maiden Test century in a 1–0 series win. 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. he 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. 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.
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 debutant 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 ODI
career has however hit roadblocks since he was dropped after an indifferent run
of scores in 2006.
Career Stats :
TEST :
Matches 40 Runs
2400 Average 32.00 Hundreds 3 Fifties 14
HS 128
ODI :
Matches 58 Runs
1719 Average 30.69 Hundreds 1
Fifties 13 HS 107
T20 :
Matches 7
Runs 76 Average 10.85
Hundreds 0 Fifties 0 HS 19
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