Wasim Jaffer

Wasim Jaffer

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Wasim Jaffer Profile

  • Name:
  • Wasim Jaffer
  • Born:
  • February 16, 1978
  • Father:
  • Abdul Kader Jaffer
  • Mother:
  • Zulekha

Wasim Jaffer Biography

Wasim Jaffer is an Indian cricketer who is a right handed batsman and right arm off break bowler. He was born on 16th February 1978 in Mumbai in Maharashtra. His father’s name is Abdul Kader Jaffer and his mother’s name is Zulekha. His father was a bus driver. Both of them had passed away.

 

When he was 15 years old he scored 400 not out in a match and later entered first class cricket in which he scored triple century in his second match. He made his test debut on 24th February 2000 against South Africa and his ODI debut on 22nd November 2006 against South Africa.

 

He was the opening batsman in the test matches of 2006. But he failed to prove continuously and so was dropped from the ODI team though he retained a place in the test matches for quite sometimes. In the first innings of his second test in 2007 against Pakistan, he scored 202 runs.

 

He represented Scholes CC in the Huddersfield Drakes League. He plays for Mumbai team in the first class cricket and represents Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the IPL. He has scored five centuries in his batting career and among them two were double centuries.

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Updated: April 26, 2013

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