Domestic cricket legend , previous India, Mumbai, and Vidarbha opener, reported his retirement from all formats of the game on Saturday, March 07
Jaffer made his top of the line debut in the 1996-97 season to play household cricket for more than 20 years and completed as the most-topped player in the Ranji Trophy. His rich heritage of Ranji Trophy records incorporates the most tops (156), the most runs (12,038), the most hundreds of years (40), the most gets (200), alongside being the most noteworthy run-scorer in the Duleep Trophy (2545) and the Irani Cup (1294). He was likewise the main batsman to cross 1000-runs per Ranji season twice, in 2008-09 and 2018-19.
The 42-year-old likewise played 31 Tests and two ODIs between 2000-2008 for India. In 31 Tests, he scored 1,944 runs at 34.01 with five centuries and 11 half-hundreds of years, having made his introduction at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium in February 2000 against South Africa.
Jaffer, who was known for his purpose and powerful batting system, indented up his most elevated Test score of 212 against West Indies at St John’s in 2006. Around the same time, he played the two his ODIs against South Africa during India’s away arrangement in 2006.
By and large, Jaffer played 260 matches in First-Class cricket, in which he scored 19,410 runs at 50.67 with 57 centuries and 91 fifties. His most noteworthy score of 314 not out sought Mumbai against Saurashtra in 1996-97 season.
The Mumbaikar likewise holds the record of scoring most hundreds of years in Ranji Trophy (40), an accomplishment which he accomplished in the wake of outperforming Delhi’s Ajay Sharma’s count of 31 tons, playing for Mumbai against Saurashtra in the last of Ranji Trophy 2012-13.
Jaffer played in 10 Ranji Trophy finals and his team emerged champ in every one of them. He won eight Ranji titles with Mumbai and two with Vidarbha, in the wake of moving base in 2015-16.