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(born
May 20 ,
1982 in
Lahore ) is a
Pakistani Cricket er who has played 15
Test s and 21
One-day International s for
Pakistan , opening the batting in 47 of his 49 international innings. However, he seems to have fallen out of favour with the Pakistani selectors, with his last international coming in the
Boxing Day Test against
Australia in
2004–05 . He did, however, play for the
A Team against
Australia A in a
Series In 2005–06 .
When on song Farhat is probably the best player of the pull shot of the young batting talent in Pakistan though he has the tendency to fall for one too many. A fine player of the drives either side of the wicket Farhat made his senior debut aged 15 in a
One-day match for
Lahore City against
Malaysia , together with three other players who went on to play Test cricket (
Taufeeq Umar ,
Bazid Khan and
Kamran Akmal ). Three years later, in February 2001, Farhat made his
One-day International debut, against
New Zealand in
Auckland , scoring five 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 29 and 18 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, second behind fellow opener
Taufeeq Umar .
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 bottom-ranked
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.
