One of the senior batsmen in the Ranji cricket, Wasim Jaffer has achieved a new record in the domestic cricket. Although his career in the game is reaching an end, he did not stop playing the game and mastering it. Jaffer on Thursday has achieved a major landmark during the second day of the Irani Cup match between Vidarbha and the Rest of India team.

Jaffar is a right-handed batsman who has been playing the game for a long time now and has surpassed many records in the game, has created another record by crossing 18,000-run mark to become only the sixth Indian batsman to reach the feat.

Not just this, Wasim Jaffer is also the first Indian and the oldest Asian, at the age of 40 to register a partnership of more than 250 runs in a first-class inning.

By scoring these runs, he stood in the 6th place in India’s all-time leading first-class scorers. Sunil Gavaskar, the legendary batsman from Mumbai with 25,834 runs is the only batsman under his belt is leading the list of the most of the runs in the first class cricket in India.

Wasim Jaffar is a batsman from Vidarbha for whom it is a cakewalk to score runs in the domestic cricket. Jaffar made his first-class debut in 1996-97, has also surpassed cricket greats like Dilip Vengsarkar and GR Viswanath with his new record.

One more record in the name of Wasim Jaffar is that he is the only the second cricketer behind GR Viswanath to score six consecutive half-centuries in the Irani Cup.

The leading run-scorers in the Indian all-time list are Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar with 25,396 runs, Rahul Dravid with 23,794 runs, VVS Laxman with 19,730 runs and Vijay Hazare with 18,740 runs. Jaffer went on to break records with every boundary and went on to register the highest individual score in the history of Irani Cup going past Murali Vijay 266.

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