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Wasim Jaffer

India

Full name Wasim Jaffer

Born February 16, 1978, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra

Current age 31 years 279 days

Major teams India, India A, Indian Board President's XI, Mumbai, Royal Challengers Bangalore, West Zone

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	31	58	1	1944	212	34.10	4045	48.05	5	11	272	3	27
ODIs	2	2	0	10	10	5.00	23	43.47	0	0	2	0	0
First-class	175	294	27	13358	314*	50.02			37	65			200
List A	74	74	5	3107	178*	45.02			7	21			31
Twenty20	13	13	0	311	95	23.92	246	126.42	0	2	42	5	7

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	31	1	66	18	2	2/18	2/18	9.00	1.63	33.0	0	0	0
ODIs	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	175		138	74	2	2/18		37.00	3.21	69.0		0	0
List A	74	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	India v South Africa at Mumbai, Feb 24-26, 2000 scorecard
Last Test	India v South Africa at Kanpur, Apr 11-13, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	South Africa v India at Durban, Nov 22, 2006 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v India at Port Elizabeth, Nov 29, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1996/97
Last First-class	Mumbai v Himachal Pradesh at Mumbai, Nov 17-20, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1996/97
Last List A	India Blue v India Red at Nagpur, Oct 11, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Tamil Nadu v Mumbai at Ahmedabad, Apr 16, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Maharashtra v Mumbai at Poona, Oct 24, 2009 scorecard

Profile

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 Ranji title.

Dileep Premachandran January 2008