Jaffer breaks record for most centuries in Ranji Trophy

[1983-2011]

Mumbai's Wasim Jaffer has added more lustre to his glorious Ranji Trophy career by breaking the record for most centuries in the tournament. Jaffer's hundred against Saurashtra on the second day of the final at the Wankhede Stadium was his 32nd, taking him past former Delhi batsman Ajay Sharma's tally. During the innings Jaffer also reclaimed the record for most runs in the Ranji Trophy, moving ahead of his former Mumbai team-mate Amol Muzumdar, who had overtaken Jaffer earlier this season. Muzumdar was on television commentary when Jaffer broke the record for most runs, as he had been when Jaffer went past him for the first time in 2011. "Well done, Wasim," Muzumdar said on air. "But it's a cat-and-mouse game. I broke his record earlier in the season, now he has got it back." Jaffer also went past 16,000 runs in first-class cricket and this century will be particularly pleasing for Jaffer, not just because it comes in the final of India's most prestigious first-class tournament, but because he scored it in a big match a season after failing in the quarter-finals and semi-finals. Mumbai's coach Sulakshan Kulkarni had said that Jaffer's low scores in those two games was one of the biggest factors behind the team not winning the title. It also gave Mumbai the first-innings lead and kept them on course to become Ranji champions for the 40th time. If Mumbai win, this will be Jaffer's eighth trophy; the most Ranji title wins by any other team is seven, by Delhi. Saurashtra are among Jaffer's favourite opposition. In 11 matches against them, he has two triple-centuries and five other hundreds. It was his unbeaten 314 against Saurashtra in only his second Ranji match, back in 1996-97, that spurred his Mumbai career which has now lasted 17 seasons. Most centuries in Ranji Trophy

• 32 - Wasim Jaffer
• 31 - Ajay Sharma
• 28 - Amol Muzumdar
• 28 - Hrishikesh Kanitkar
• 27 - Amarjit Kaypee
• 26 - Brijesh Patel
• 26 - Surendra Bhave
• 24 - Vinod Kambli
• 23 - Sridharan Sharath
• 23 - VVS Laxman
• 23 - Pankaj Dharmani

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2012/content/story/602355.html?CMP=chrome

[Lord]

:hatsoff:

[velu]

other than laxman all other players are complete failures :winky:

[saneindian]

Wonderful achievement. Today itself, Wasim's nephew Arman Jaffer hits 290 in the finals of the Vijay Merchant Trophy ( U-16 tournament).

[prinzo]

So why isn't wassim Jaffer in the test team?

[Jersey #10]

So why isn't wassim Jaffer in the test team?

Bc Jadeja is better

[I6MTW]

Guys like Amol Mazumadar and Wasim Jaffer were never given chances in the indian team and now they're glorious FC career has past.

[CG]

Guys like Amol Mazumadar and Wasim Jaffer were never given chances in the indian team and now they're glorious FC career has past.

Whar?

[I6MTW]

I mean proper chances. Wasim Jaffer only played a couple matches.

[CG]

I mean proper chances. Wasim Jaffer only played a couple matches.

31 test matches is couple of matches for you.

[I6MTW]

He was never a main stay for the indian team. He could've easily scored more runs for India and would've broken the records of Laxman had he played more matches. He was unlucky.

[1983-2011]

Jaffer made his comeback in march 2006 and had an excellent run until australia tour. he averaged 45 in test cricket during that period but then he had poor 3 matches against Australia and was dropped for the final test match, he was picked against south africa and batted well in the first match but had 2 poor matches and was never picked again. he should deffo replace gambhir or sehwag against australia test series

[SLICKR392]

other than laxman all other players are complete failures :winky:

+1 VVS was busy winning matches for India unlike the Ranji heroes.