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Full name Minal Mahesh Patel
Born July 7, 1970, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
Current age 38 years 53 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
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
2
2
0
45
27
22.50
112
40.17
0
0
4
0
2
0
First-class
208
278
51
3945
87
17.37
0
17
102
0
List A
85
43
16
269
27*
9.96
0
0
24
0
Twenty20
9
4
1
18
8
6.00
25
72.00
0
0
1
1
0
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
Twenty20
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
Leicestershire v Kent at Leicester, Jul 24, 2006 scorecard
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
