Dual-armed brilliance: Who is Fatima Jaffer, MI's rare ambidextrous bowler?
Updated On: 22 February, 2024 02:06 PM IST | Bengaluru | mid-day online correspondent
Fatima, sister of upcoming Mumbai batter Armaan Jaffer, gave credit to father Kaleem Jaffer, a respected coach in Mumbai circles, for supporting her
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Fatima Jaffer (Pic: Mumbai Indians)
Cricket runs in her blood, but the young Fatima Jaffer from Mumbai Indians has chosen to trot on a different path, defying the family tradition. The niece of former India and Mumbai batter Wasim Jaffer, Fatima has taken to bowling instead, and that too in a quirky way.
She is one of the rare ambidextrous bowlers in the Indian domestic circuit, a right-arm medium pacer who can fill in the role of a left-arm spinner when the situation demands so. But her beginning as an ambidextrous bowler happened in a less than creditable circumstances.
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