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4. Wasim Jaffer – Royal Challengers Bangalore

Wasim Jaffer is one of the most technically sound batsmen to have ever played for India in the longest format of the game. The Mumbai batsman has amassed over 10000 runs in the First Class matches. His numbers are staggering in the long formats. Perhaps this was the reason why the teams were apprehensive about his participation in the T20 league.

Jaffer was a part of the IPL for the first two seasons. He played 8 matches across the 2008 and 2009 editions of the tournament for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. He was a part of the inaugural IPL match against the Kolkata Knight Riders. In the 8 matches that he played, he scored 130 runs with a fifty to his name.

He averaged just 16.25 in the tournament. It was perhaps the conventional style of play of Wasim Jaffer that brought a premature end to the T20 league career of such a fine batsman. Since then he led the Mumbai team to title triumphs in the Ranji Trophies and then represented Vidarbha in the domestic circuit.