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Full name Parthiv Ajay Patel
Born March 9, 1985, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Current age 23 years 120 days
Major teams India,Chennai Super Kings,Gujarat,India Green,Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI
Batting style Left-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
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
88
129
18
4161
179
37.48
8
23
220
38
List A
78
68
5
1665
71
26.42
2113
78.79
0
11
91
32
Twenty20
22
21
2
461
57
24.26
415
111.08
0
3
66
5
10
3
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
19
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
14
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
88
18
9
0
-
-
-
3.00
-
0
0
0
List A
78
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
22
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Test debut
England v India at Nottingham, Aug 8-12, 2002 scorecard
Last Test
India v Australia at Nagpur, Oct 26-29, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
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
ODI statistics
First-class debut
2001/02
Last First-class
North Zone v West Zone at Mumbai, Feb 19-22, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2001/02
Last List A
South Zone v West Zone at Bangalore, Mar 26, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v PCA Masters XI at Leicester, Sep 15, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals at Mumbai, Jun 1, 2008 scorecard
Profile
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. Patel's form took a turn for the better in 2007, on a twin tour of Zimbabwe and Harare for India A, where he hit three hundreds and a half-century. In the first match of a series against South Africa A at home Patel opened up with a fourth century on the trot. 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.
S Rajesh (September 2007)
