Wasim Jaffer

**Wasim Jaffer**
Personal information
Born	16 February 1978 (age 34) Bombay (now Mumbai),Maharastra, India
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Role	Opening batsman
International information
National side	India
Test debut(cap 225)	24 February 2000 v South Africa
Last Test	11 April 2008 v South Africa
ODI debut(cap 166)	22 November 2006 v South Africa
Last ODI	29 November 2006 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1996/97–present	Mumbai
2008–present	Bangalore Royal Challengers
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	FC	List A
Matches	31	180	74
Runs scored	1,944	13,735	3,107
Batting average	34.10	50.39	45.02
100s/50s	5/11	39/66	7/21
Top score	212	314*	178*
Balls bowled	66	138	–
Wickets	2	2	–
Bowling average	9.00	37.00	–
5 wickets in innings	0	0	–
10 wickets in match	0	0	–
Best bowling	2/18	2/18	–
Catches/stumpings	27/–	197/–	32/–
Source: CricketArchive, 21 March 2009

Wasim Jaffer

pronunciation (help·info) (born February 16, 1978) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off-break bowler.He is currently the highest run-getter in ranji trophy surprassing Amol Muzumdar.^[1]

[edit]Early years

Following a prolific school career, during which he scored 400 not out in one innings as a 15 year old, he made his entry into the first class cricket scoring a triple century in his second match. His innings of 314 not out helped set a series of firsts for Mumbai. It was the first occasion that a batsman had made a triple century for Mumbai away from home and by putting on 459 runs with his opening partner Sulakshan Kulkarni the pair became the first from Mumbai to pass 400.^[2]^[3]

[edit]International career

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Jaffer's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

An opening batsman, with the style ofMohammed Azharuddin, much was expected of Jaffer as he entered Test cricket for the first time in a home series against South Africa in 2000. An experienced bowling duo in Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald would however prove too difficult for Jaffer to cope with, and he managed just 46 runs from his four innings. He would not start another international match for some time, eventually returning in May 2002 for a tour of the West Indies. Jaffer had a respectable series, making 51 in Bridgetown and 86 at Antigua. He had done enough to be included in the Indian squad for their tour of England that coming summer but despite a half century at Lord's he struggled in his other innings and was dropped after two Tests.

Jaffer was recalled to the Test team for the tour of Pakistan 2005-06 in the wake of excellent domestic form, but did not play in the Test matches. It was in the next series in India that Jaffer scored his maiden Test century scoring exactly 100 against England at Nagpur, in his first Test since his recall.

He made his first Test double century at the Antigua Recreation Ground against the West Indies in June 2006.^[4] His 212 was made in over 500 minutes during the second innings was the equal second highest by an Indian batsman in the Caribbean.^[5]

In July 2006, his position as India's first-choice opener to partner Virender Sehwag was confirmed via the award of a central contract (Grade C) by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Jaffer was selected for ODI series in November 2006 against South Africa, making his ODI debut. However, Jaffer was unproductive and was immediately dropped from the ODI team. However, he continued to score in the Test format, making his third Test century against South Africa at Newlands, Cape Town.

Despite making a pair in the opening Test of his next series against Bangladesh at Chittagong, he returned to form with 138 in the following Test before he retired hurt.^[6]

Jaffer scored 202 in the first innings of the second test^[7] of the 2007 series against Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Although yet to play county cricket, Jaffer has represented Scholes CC in the Huddersfield Drakes League for a number of seasons as their overseas player. For the 2010 season Wasim moved a few miles down the road to Skelmanthorpe Cricket Club to play as their overseas player, a season in which he broke the league record for the amount of runs scored in a single season. In the 2011 season Jaffer signed to Himley CC as their overseas professional in the Birmingham and District Premier League .

Jaffer ended his career with 5 centuries of which 2 were double centuries. He has Test centuries against Pakistan, England, West Indies and South Africa. He will be remembered as talent unfulfilled.^[8]