Ranji Trophy: Wasim Jaffer back in Vidarbha, named batting consultant | Cricket News

Mumbai: The Vidarbha Cricket Association has named former India opener Wasim Jaffer because the batting consultant of all its cricket groups for the 2025-26 home season, TOI has learnt. The home colossus, who was the pinnacle coach of the Punjab senior workforce final home season, would be the batting consultant of all of the age group sides of Vidarbha-right from the Under-14 workforce to the senior workforce.Vidarbha are the defending Ranji Trophy champions and reached the ultimate of the 2023-24 Ranji Trophy, the place they misplaced to Mumbai by 169 runs on the Wankhede Stadium.Jaffer has had a profitable relationship with Vidarbha in the previous. Towards the top of his profession, he featured for the Nagpur-based aspect as a ‘Pro’ and performed a key function in their back-to-back Ranji Trophy and Irani Cup triumphs in 2017-18 & 2018-19. His ‘partnership’ with former India stumper Chandrakant Pandit, who was the workforce’s head coach, labored wonders for Vidarbha’s cricketing fortunes at the moment. In one other case of Vidarbha’s Mumbai connection in the upcoming season, former Mumbai quick bowler Vishal Mahadik has been named because the Vidarbha Under-19 workforce’s head coach. Mahadik made his Mumbai Ranji Trophy debut in opposition to Baroda underneath Sachin Tendulkar’s captaincy in 1993-94.

Jaffer has had stints with Punjab, Uttarakhand and Orissa as their head coach. The 46-year-old was additionally the batting coach of Punjab Kings from 2019-2021, and later the batting consultant of the Bangladesh Under19 and their high-performance workforce (‘A’ aspect).Jaffer performed 31 Tests in which he scored 1944 runs@34.10, with 5 lots of, apart from two ODIs. A colossus in home cricket-he scored an enormous 19,410 runs in 260 First-Class video games with 57 centuries-Jaffer holds the document for being highest run-getter in the historical past of the historical past, having amassed 12,038 runs in 238 innings in the match throughout his epic profession. He captained Mumbai to 2 Ranji Trophy titles in 2008-09 and 2009-10.