Ajaz Patel

New Zealand

Full name Ajaz Yunus Patel

Born October 21, 1988, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India

Current age 32 years 128 days

Major teams New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland A, Central Districts, Central Districts A, New Zealand A

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	8	10	3	53	14	7.57	169	31.36	0	0	4	0	5
T20Is	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	64	92	25	893	45	13.32	2417	36.94	0	0	120	7	45
List A	30	18	7	136	31*	12.36	173	78.61	0	0	13	3	14
T20s	57	21	11	92	12*	9.20	94	97.87	0	0	5	3	11

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	8	14	1625	733	22	5/59	7/123	33.31	2.70	73.8	0	2	0
T20Is	2	2	36	45	1	1/27	1/27	45.00	7.50	36.0	0	0	0
First-class	64	114	14801	7772	242	6/48	11/265	32.11	3.15	61.1	7	18	3
List A	30	28	1469	1349	31	3/43	3/43	43.51	5.50	47.3	0	0	0
T20s	57	56	1171	1550	63	3/20	3/20	24.60	7.94	18.5	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Nov 16-19, 2018 scorecard
Last Test	New Zealand v India at Wellington, Feb 21-24, 2020 scorecard
Test statistics
T20I debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Oct 31, 2018 scorecard
Last T20I	New Zealand v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Nov 2, 2018 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	Wellington v Central Districts at Wellington, Dec 10-13, 2012 scorecard
Last First-class	Otago v Central Districts at Dunedin, Mar 10-13, 2020 scorecard
List A debut	Central Districts v Canterbury at Napier, Dec 27, 2015 scorecard
Last List A	Auckland v Central Districts at Auckland, Feb 21, 2021 scorecard
T20s debut	Central Districts v Wellington at Napier, Dec 7, 2012 scorecard
Last T20s	Central Districts v Canterbury at Auckland, Feb 11, 2021 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
2/51, 1	Central D	v Auckland	Auckland	21 Feb 2021	LA
0*, 0/73	Central D	v Auckland	Auckland	19 Feb 2021	LA
1/31	Central D	v Canterbury	Auckland	11 Feb 2021	T20
1/24	Central D	v Canterbury	Napier	5 Feb 2021	T20
4, 0/37	Central D	v Wellington	Wellington	31 Jan 2021	T20
0/37, 7*	Central D	v Auckland	Auckland	23 Jan 2021	T20
1/11	Central D	v Otago	New Plymouth	18 Jan 2021	T20
0/37	Central D	v Canterbury	Christchurch	10 Jan 2021	T20
3/34	Central D	v Otago	Dunedin	8 Jan 2021	T20
6, 0/19	Central D	v Northern Dis	Hamilton	4 Jan 2021	T20

Profile

One minute, he was sitting down to eat dinner with nearly 30 of his closest family. The next, he was being told that he was on the Test squad to play for New Zealand. Meet Ajaz Patel, a left-arm spinner who was, like many before him, a fast bowler growing up.

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