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Full name Ashok Kurjibhai Patel
Born March 6, 1957, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Current age 51 years 222 days
Major teams India,Saurashtra
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
8
2
0
6
6
3.00
11
54.54
0
0
0
0
1
0
First-class
49
65
12
1506
73
28.41
0
10
24
0
List A
14
6
2
48
28*
12.00
0
0
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
8
6
360
263
7
3/43
3/43
37.57
4.38
51.4
0
0
0
First-class
49
7671
3769
109
6/32
34.57
2.94
70.3
5
0
List A
14
798
588
18
3/43
3/43
32.66
4.42
44.3
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
India v Australia at New Delhi, Sep 28, 1984 scorecard
This tall off-spinner from Saurashtra was inducted into the Indian
one-day team after his impressive performances in both the Ranji and
the Duleep Trophy matches in the 1984-85 season. His bowling was
different from the conventional style of flighting the ball to
purchase wickets. Instead, Patel was more of a wrist spinner than a
finger spinner using his height to a great extent in deceiving the
batsman. Generally bowling flat spinners, Patel picked up 21 wickets
in eight innings at an impressive average of 19.52 and in the Duleep
Trophy game he picked up four wickets for West Zone against South Zone
both during the 1984-85 season. This helped him to get noticed by the
selectors who were looking for a replacement for Shivlal Yadav. He
played for India in eight one-dayers all in the same season against
Australia and England. Except for a spell of three for 43 against
Australia at Indore, he did little of note and was discarded.
(AC Ganesh)
