Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel

India

Full name Parthiv Ajay Patel
Born March 9, 1985, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Current age 21 years 356 days
Major teams India, Gujarat, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI
Batting style Left-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Statsguru

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	71	105	17	2577	129	29.28			2	14			169	30
List A	60	53	5	1224	71	25.50	1579	77.51	0	7			64	24
Twenty20	2	1	0	17	17	17.00	14	121.42	0	0			0	0

Bowling averages

	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	71	18	9	0	-	-	-	3.00	-	0	0	0
List A	60	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Twenty20	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	England v India at Nottingham - Aug 8-12, 2002
Last Test	India v Australia at Nagpur - Oct 26-29, 2004
ODI debut	New Zealand v India at Queenstown - Jan 4, 2003
Last ODI	Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS) - Jul 27, 2004
First-class span	2001/02 - 2006/07
List A span	2001/02 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2005

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. 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.