I have been a huge Wasim Jaffer fan since forever. He has had a strange career really. For many seasons, he kept piling the runs but wasn’t picked. Then, when he was picked for his first stint in the team, he wasn’t in the best of form. He was also shown up against movement, paricularly versus the English. You have to make the little of the smallest opportunities you get in Indian cricket as there are so many players competing for spots.

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