Min Patel

England

Full name Minal Mahesh Patel

Born July 7, 1970, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India

Current age 48 years 162 days

Major teams England, Kent

Nickname Diamond

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Height 5 ft 7 in

Education Dartford GS, Manchester Polytechnic

Explore Min Patel's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	2	2	0	45	27	22.50	112	40.17	0	4	0	2
First-class	208	278	51	3945	87	17.37			17			102
List A	85	43	16	269	27*	9.96			0			24
T20s	9	4	1	18	8	6.00	25	72.00	0	1	1	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	2	4	276	180	1	1/101	1/148	180.00	3.91	276.0	0	0	0
First-class	208		44787	19309	630	8/96		30.64	2.58	71.0		30	9
List A	85		3648	2701	88	3/20	3/20	30.69	4.44	41.4	0	0	0
T20s	9	9	196	257	15	4/26	4/26	17.13	7.86	13.0	1	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v India at Birmingham, Jun 6-9, 1996 scorecard
Last Test	England v India at Nottingham, Jul 4-9, 1996 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	1989
Last First-class	Sussex v Kent at Hove, Apr 18-21, 2007 scorecard
List A debut	1990
Last List A	Kent v Sri Lanka A at Canterbury, Jul 16, 2007 scorecard
T20s debut	Kent v Essex at Beckenham, Jun 27, 2006 scorecard
Last T20s	Leicestershire v Kent at Leicester, Jul 24, 2006 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
-	Kent 2nd XI	v Sussx 2nd XI	Woodman Cote	28 Jun 2016	Other
0/33	M.C.C.	v Herts	Lord's	22 Jun 2014	Other OD
0/37	M.C.C.	v N Zealanders	Arundel	27 Apr 2008	Other
1/37	M.C.C.	v Scotland	Lord's	21 Apr 2008	Other OD
0/13, 16, 4	Kent 2nd XI	v Sussx 2nd XI	Beckenham	5 Sep 2007	Other
-	Kent	v Sri Lanka A	Canterbury	16 Jul 2007	LA
0/19, 0/5	Kent	v Cardiff UCCE	Canterbury	25 Apr 2007	Other
15, 0/90, 52, 1/17	Kent	v Sussex	Hove	18 Apr 2007	FC
25, 2/55	Kent	v Warwickshire	Birmingham	13 Sep 2006	FC
0/64, 6, 17	Kent	v Notts	Nottingham	22 Aug 2006	FC

Profile

A left-arm spinner with a busy action, Patel is more of a teaser than a turner, pressurising batsmen into mistakes with his formidable accuracy. His career for Kent has been steady rather than startling, but he was chosen for England against the country of his birth, India, in 1996, during one of Phil Tufnell's absences from the side. Patel was unlucky: he bowled only 10 overs in the first Test on a greentop at Edgbaston, was dropped for the second and milked with ease on a Trent Bridge featherbed in the third. And he fell even further out of the reckoning when he missed virtually the whole of the 1997 season through injury. Unlike his bowling, his batting is unorthodox: he's strong square of the wicket, and likes to whack the ball over point, but he can knuckle down too - as his brief Test career showed - and relishes the role of nightwatchman. He was appointed Kent's vice-captain in 2006 and has been in fine form in recent seasons before announcing his retirement in February 2008.
Lawrence Booth February 2008

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