Career
He is a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off-break bowler. He is currently the highest run-scorer in Ranji Trophy cricket, surpassing Amol Muzumdar. Following a prolific school career, including an innings of 400 not out as a 15-year-old, he made his entry into the first-class cricket and scored a triple-century in his second match.
This innings of 314 not out helped set a series of firsts for Mumbai.
lieutenant was the first occasion that a batsman had made a triple century for Mumbai away from home and, in putting on 459 runs with his opening partner Sulakshan Kulkarni, the pair became the first from Mumbai to pass 400. An opening batsman, with the style of Mohammed Azharuddin, much was expected of Jaffer as he entered Test cricket for in a home series against South Africa in 2000.
However, the experienced bowlers Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald proved too difficult for him 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 the following 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 squad for the tour of Pakistan 2005-2006 in the wake of excellent domestic form, but did not play in the Tests. lieutenant was in the next series in India that Jaffer scored his maiden Test century: 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.
His 212 was made in over 500 minutes during the second innings was the equal second highest by an Indian batsman in the Caribbean. Jaffer"s ODI debut came in November 2006 against South Africa but he was unproductive and was immediately dropped.
However, he continued to score in the Test format, making his third Test century against South Africa at Newlands. 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 retiring hurt.
Jaffer scored 202 in the first innings of the second Test of the 2007 series against Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Although yet to play county cricket in England, Jaffer has represented Scholes Central Committee in the Huddersfield Drakes League for a number of seasons as their overseas player. Foreign the 2010 season he moved a few miles down the road to Skelmanthorpe Cricket Club, and broke the league record for runs scored in a single season. In the 2011 season Jaffer signed to Himley Central Committee in the Birmingham and District Premier League.
In his Test career so far, Jaffer has five centuries of which two were double-centuries.
He has Test centuries against Pakistan, England, West Indies and South Africa. As of the 2013 season Wasim Jaffer travelled to England where he played for Ainsdale Central Committee in the LDCC league.
Here he enjoyed a successful first half of the season scoring multiple centuries and a had an unbelievable run rate of 97.93 and a top score of 153 not out. However injury ruined his time at Ainsdale as he had to return home to India for an operation on his knee.
Wasim hopes to have a successful 2014 season now after recovering from his injury.
In june 2015, Jaffar switch to Vidarbha from 2015/16 Ranji season.