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Nagpur, March 16
Wasim Jaffer defied age and modern fitness norms to flay Rest of India’s bowling attack throughout the second day of the Irani Cup as Vidarbha reached a mammoth 589/3, riding on Mumbai maestro’s unbeaten 285.
At 40, Jaffer batted with composure bleeding a young bowling attack with thousand cuts en route his unbeaten knock on a placid track at the VCA Stadium. The Mumbai maestro wasn’t troubled one bit by Ravichandran Ashwin (1/123) and Jayant Yadav’s (1/149) spin bowling. Ashwin once again bowled leg-breaks without much success. Jaffer faced 83 balls from Ashwin and picked up as many as 54 runs.
He started the day on 113 and added 172 runs more to become the highest individual scorer for Rest of India in the Irani Cup, surpassing Murali Vijay’s 266 during the 2012-13 season. Jaffer’s innings had 34 boundaries and one six. He has faced 425 balls so far.
Along with Ganesh Sathish (120), Jaffer added 289 runs for the third wicket and then another 91 runs with Apoorv Wankhade (44*).
It is expected that Vidarbha will allow Jaffer to complete his triple hundred before declaring their innings. Jaffer reached 250 by clipping Siddarth Kaul to mid-wicket fence. The reverse sweep off Yadav followed by a cover drive got him past Vijay as the highest scorer in an Irani Cup game.
