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Full name Parthiv Ajay Patel
Born March 9, 1985, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Current age 20 years 127 days
Major teams India, Gujarat
Batting style Left-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 19 28 7 669 69 31.85 1483 45.11 0 4 92 0 39 7
ODIs 14 10 1 132 28 14.66 226 58.40 0 0 13 0 12 3
First-class 52 72 14 1817 129 31.32 3751 48.44 1 12 111 17
List A 38 32 3 643 71 22.17 810 79.38 0 4 39 10
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 19 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
ODIs 14 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 52 18 9 0 - - - 3.00 - 0 0 0
List A 38 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Test debut England v India at Nottingham - Aug 8-12, 2002 scorecard
Last Test India v Australia at Nagpur - Oct 26-29, 2004 scorecard
ODI debut New Zealand v India at Queenstown - Jan 4, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS) - Jul 27, 2004 scorecard
First-class span 2001/02 - 2004/05
List A span 2001/02 - 2004/05
Small even for his tender age, when Parthiv Patel
led his side onto the stage during the Wisden Indian Cricketer of
the Century Awards in London in July 2002, some people assumed he
was the team mascot. But within a month he had instead become Test
cricket's youngest wicketkeeper - at 17 years, 153 days - when
called up to replace the injured Ajay Ratra for the second Test at
Trent Bridge. And he didn't do too badly either, scoring a gutsy,
unbeaten 19 which helped stave off an Indian defeat. Patel's
glovework has varied from the competent to the shoddy - he was
splendid in the home series against West Indies in 2002-03, but then
struggled to inspire confidence thereafter, especially when standing
up to the spinners. His ability with the bat ensured that he got an
extended run - he scored an aggressive 62 at Sydney in 2003-04, and
then faced up to Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami with plenty of
poise, scoring 69 as an opener. However, those batting performances
weren't enough to gloss over increasingly sloppy work behind the
stumps, and the selectors' patience finally ran out after the third
Test of the home series against Australia, when he was replaced by
Dinesh Karthik. Adam Gilchrist is Patel's role model: if he can
bounce back and achieve even half the success Gilchrist has as a
wicketkeeper-batsman, Indian cricket will be well served.
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