wasim jaffer Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
wasim jaffer is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Wasim Jaffer
Born
February 16, 1978, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Age
45 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 31 | 2 | - | 8 |
Inn | 58 | 2 | - | 8 |
Runs | 1944 | 10 | - | 130 |
Avg | 34.11 | 5.0 | - | 16.25 |
SR | 48.06 | 43.48 | - | 107.44 |
HS | 212 | 10 | - | 50 |
NO | 1 | 0 | - | 0 |
100s | 5 | 0 | - | 0 |
50s | 11 | 0 | - | 1 |
4s | 272 | 2 | - | 14 |
6s | 3 | 0 | - | 3 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 31 | 2 | - | 8 |
Inn | 1 | - | - | - |
Balls | 66 | - | - | - |
Runs | 18 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 2 | - | - | - |
BBI | 18 / 2 | - | - | - |
BBM | 18 / 2 | - | - | - |
Eco | 1.64 | - | - | - |
Avg | 9.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Armaan Jaffer
- India
- Abahani Limited
- India A
- Indian Board President's XI
- Mumbai
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Vidarbha
- West Zone
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Right from the start of his career, Jaffer did not escape comparisons with legendary (and later tainted) Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin. Both were right handers who were in possession of silken wrists and loved working the field on the leg side. After a few prolific seasons in the Ranji Trophy, Jaffer was inducted into the India side against the visiting South Africans in 2000. The Proteas bowling line-up included fear-inducing names like Allan Donald and Jaffer, who had to face their brunt with the new ball, could manage just 46 runs from 4 innings and was dropped.
The next chance that Jaffer got was a couple of seasons later in 2002, understandably after piling on a mountain of runs in domestic cricket, when India toured West Indies. A couple of fifties ensured that he earned a ticket on the flight to England, but was once again dropped 2 Tests later.
Two things remained a regular feature in Jaffer's career: In and out of the Indian Test side in a gap of 2-3 years and consistently scaling peaks in the Ranji Trophy. This time, after a gap of three years, he got a look-in against Pakistan, but failed to make the playing XI. However in the next series against Andrew Flintoff's England, he got a chance in the 1st Test at Nagpur in March 2006. Jaffer capitalised immediately, scoring 81 and 100. The 2006-07 season would go on to be a watershed in his career as Jaffer hit a rich vein of form. In all he managed 5 hundreds and 7 fifties in a stretch of 19 Tests which included a majestic 212 in St John's Antigua in the 2nd innings which eventually helped India save the Test. Along with Dinesh Karthik, he formed a solid opening combination in the victorious Test series against England, which came immediately after India's infamous first round exit from the 50 over World Cup in 2007. A second double hundred came against arch-rivals Pakistan in the Kolkata Test in 2007. It looked like Jaffer had cemented his place in the Indian set-up. But things were too good to be true.
In 2008 came the IPL and it changed the way fans and selectors looked at cricket. As far as Jaffer was concerned, the centuries, runs and slip catches kept registering, but only in the scorebooks. He was deemed 'too slow' and 'old' by selectors who preferred to brood in youngsters. His non-selection was compounded by the fact that the Sehwag-Gambhir pair had a prolific run. Jaffer was a part of an IPL side too, the Bangalore franchise , but could manage only a few noteworthy scores.
The clamor for Jaffer's inclusion was raised to a fever-pitch after India lost 1-2 to England in 2012/13 at home and it co-incided with Jaffer being the top-scorer in the Ranji Trophy, which Mumbai won for the 40th time in Ranji Trophy history. There was more than just a crevice in the opening slot: Gambhir and Sehwag were going through their leanest patches. A century in the Irani Trophy match just before the selection for the 4 match Test series against Australia did up his stakes and there were whispers that Jaffer had made it. But when the final team was announced, he lost out to Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan, the former hadn't even scored just about half the runs he had in the Ranji season.
As always has been the case with Jaffer scored heavily at the 2013-14 Ranji season as well, becoming the second highest run-getter for his side Mumbai with 582 runs. However, despite 3 hundreds and a fifty, a season average in the mid 30s is a shade lesser by Jaffer's standards. With age not on his side, on a miracle can bring Jaffer back into the national fold.
by Cricbuzz Staff - March 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A triple-century in only his second first-class game had Wasim Jaffer anointed as the great new hope of Mumbai cricket. He was a slightly-built opening batsman with the style and panache of the young Azharuddin, and much was expected of him on his Test debut in February 2000. But Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock proved too hot to handle - even though he showed glimpses of a steely and unflappable temperament - and his international career was put on hold. He continued to pile on the runs in domestic cricket and a string of big scores in 2001-02 won him a place on the tour of the West Indies. Once there, he stroked his way to two elegant half-centuries, though a worrying tendency to give it away when well set resulted in his losing his place at the top of the order. He reminded the selectors of his quality with some superb batting for the A team on the 2003 tour of England, but spent three years in the domestic wilderness before being recalled to the squad for the third Test against Sri Lanka in 2005-06. He made most of his first chance on return, against England at Nagpur in March 2006, notching up his maiden Test hundred and followed it up with a double against West Indies in June 2006. After losing his place in the Test side to Gautam Gambhir, Jaffer made a strong statement through a bumper Rani season in 2008-09, scoring 1260 runs at 84, including a triple-century. He also captained Mumbai to their 38th and 39th Ranji title, as well as overseeing West Zone's 16th Duleep Trophy success in early 2010.
Cricinfo staff February 2010