Wasim Jaffer Rates IPL Higher Than the Ranji Trophy

India’s vanguard batsman Wasim Jaffer has rated Indian Premier League higher than the Ranji Trophy. Jaffer believes IPL is a perfect platform for the youngsters to get noticed. In fact, we have seen in the recent past that players receive their call-up to Indian squad after performing well in the Twenty20 league.

Indian Premier League has provided a great platform to the young Indian players. The players have expressed themselves and they have got the much-needed exposure. The rookie players are playing in the tensed situation in front of a jam-packed crowd. Thus, the exposure of IPL has helped the young generation to come up good.

IPL provides a perfect platform.

“Nowadays, the challenge for the youngsters is to adapt to all three formats. The IPL is also very important to get into the limelight. No matter how much runs you score in Ranji Trophy, if you are not playing the IPL, it is hard to get noticed,” Wasim told Sportstar from Nagpur.

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“It is not like before where you scored 1,000 runs and you are in the reckoning. If you score those many runs, you might only end up playing for India A. But to get into the Indian side, you need a stage like the IPL, where you perform against the best players and get noticed,” Wasim said.

The young players like Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill have grabbed their opportunities with both hands at the big stage. Meanwhile, Wasim Jaffer’s nephew Armaan Jaffer had recently knocked a brilliant triple hundred in the Under-23 CK Nayudu Trophy. Thus, Wasim hopes Armaan also performs well in the IPL.

“Players like Prithvi (Shaw), Shubman (Gill) have got that stage where they are noticed and they also understand what it takes to perform in the big stage and what more they need to do. I hope that’s what Armaan does,” he said.

Armaan needs to keep coming up with consistent performances.

On the other hand, Wasim said it is not going to be easy for Armaan to break into the Mumbai side. The Mumbai Ranji Trophy already has big players like Shreyas Iyer and Prithvi Shaw.

“This season, he has started with a bang and that is expected from a good player anyway. Getting straightaway into the side will be hard because Mumbai played so well in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. There are so many young players like Prithvi, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Lad, they have got a strong middle-order, so it is going to be hard to break into the side,” Wasim said, adding: “So, it is better to score big runs at the U-23 tournament and then wait to break into the Ranji Trophy side. I am very happy that he is exactly doing that. That’s the best way to knock on the door.”

Wasim Jaffer has hit the nail on the head as there is no doubt that performing well in the IPL catches the eyeballs of the Indian selectors. However, this criteria should be limited to the selection of the T20I side.