Saleem Jaffar is a retired Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played in 14 Tests

Test cricket

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 and 39 One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1992. Jaffar was born in Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

. He is the only Ismaili

Ismaili

' is a branch of Shia Islam. It is the second largest branch of Shia Islam, after the Twelvers...

 Nizari

Nizari

'The Shī‘a Imami Ismā‘īlī Tariqah also referred to as the Ismā‘īlī or Nizārī , is a path of Shī‘a Islām, emphasizing social justice, pluralism, and human reason within the framework of the mystical tradition of Islam. The Nizari are the second largest branch of Shia Islam and form the majority...

 Muslim (Aga Khani) played for any cricket team in the world.

Jaffar took 5 for 11 on his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut in 1983–84, and in 1985–86 finished the season with 80 wickets at a Bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 19. He made both Test and ODI debuts against West Indies the season of his international call-up. His tour of England in 1987

Pakistani cricket team in England in 1987

The Pakistan cricket team toured England in the 1987 season to play a five-match Test series against England.Pakistan won the series 1-0 with 4 matches drawn.-Test series summary:* – match drawn* – match drawn...

 was ended by injury. Against England at Karachi in 1987–88 he took five wickets and was selected for the tour of the Caribbean that followed. Against New Zealand at Wellington

Basin Reserve

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 in 1988–89

Pakistani cricket team in New Zealand in 1988-89

The Pakistan national cricket team toured New Zealand in the 1988-89 season, following its unsuccessful participation in the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup in Australia....

, he took match figures of 8 for 134, including his only Test five-for.

After his test career he played in the British Columbia Mainland Cricket League, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. During his involvement, the Ismaili Cricket Club won back-to-back championships.

In 2007 he was appointed as a selector for the Pakistan national cricket team.