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IMRAN FARHAT

IMRAN FARHAT BIOGRAPHY

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Imran Farhat (Urdu: عمران فرحت‎, 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.

Farhat’s finest moment came against New Zealand at Napier in 2009-10 when he carried his bat through an innings. Pakistan were bowled out for 223, but Farhat had batted through, scoring 117 not out when nobody else crossed 25.

Farhat has an admirable First Class record — over 11,700 runs at 43.50 with 28 centuries and 51 fifties with a top score of 308. At a time when quality openers were scarce in Pakistan, he was never quite out of national reckoning, but with the emergence of the likes of Mohamad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad and Asad Shafiq at the top for Pakistan, it looks difficult for Farhat to make another come-back.

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.