Jeetan Patel

Personal information
Full name	Jeetan Shashi Patel
Born	(1980-05-07) 7 May 1980 (age 32) Wellington, New Zealand
Nickname	Jeets, Dave, The Jeet
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm off break
International information
National side	New Zealand
Test debut (cap 233)	27 April 2006 v South Africa
Last Test	26 August 2009 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 142)	31 August 2005 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	5 October 2009 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1999–present	Wellington
2009; 2011-present	Warwickshire
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	List A
Matches	9	39	84	97
Runs scored	131	88	1,312	295
Batting average	13.10	14.66	19.87	9.83
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	1/3	0/0
Top score	27*	34	120	34
Balls bowled	2,556	1,804	15,667	4,639
Wickets	33	42	187	100
Bowling average	39.06	36.02	39.97	36.85
5 wickets in innings	1	0	5	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	5/110	3/11	6/32	4/16
Catches/stumpings	5/–	12/–	28/–	29/–
Source: CricketArchive, 28 November 2009

Jeetan Shashi Patel (born 7 May 1980) is a New Zealand cricketer of Indian descent. Patel is a right arm off spin bowler. He plays domestic cricket for the Wellington Firebirds and has represented the New Zealand Black Caps in One Day Internationals, Twenty20 matches, and Test cricket.

Patel was earmarked as a promising player early in his career. He played age group cricket in Wellington at under 15, under 17, and under 19 levels. He played for the New Zealand Cricket Academy in a one-day match against England A in 1999 and made his debut for Wellington in New Zealand's 1999–2000 domestic season. Patel currently has a first class bowling average of around 40 and a List A bowling average in the mid-30s.

Patel showed steady improvement as a bowler during the 2004–05 season, taking 26 first class wickets at an average of 32.84. He played two one-dayers against South Africa A on the 2004–05 New Zealand A tour of South Africa. He represented the North Island in the 2004–05 State of Origin match and played for the New Zealand Academy in the 2005 Cricket Australia Emerging Players Tournament.

In the 2004 English Season, he represented Buckingham Town Cricket Club, making a big impact in the 1st Team as well as progressing youngsters in local development schemes. Patel became the first player in twenty years to take 50 league wickets during his spell at the Bourton Road club and first player ever to go on to play international cricket.

Patel was a member of the 2005–06 New Zealand Black Caps tour of Zimbabwe. He made his ODI debut for New Zealand against Zimbabwe in the 2005–06 Videocon Tri-Series. He toured Sri Lanka with New Zealand A later in the season and played in the Triangular A Team Tournament at the conclusion of the tour.

Patel was selected for the one-day leg of New Zealand's 2005–06 tour of South Africa. He made his international Twenty20 debut on the tour and was named Man of the Match, returning bowling figures of 3 for 20 off 4 overs. He played as a Supersub in the first ODI against the Proteas, returning creditable bowling figures of 2 for 48 off 8. Other career highlights include a Man of the Match performance for New Zealand against Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI of Sri Lanka's 2005–06 tour of New Zealand. Playing as a Supersub in his fourth ODI, Patel restricted the run rate and built pressure at a crucial period during Sri Lanka's run chase, finishing with match figures of 2 for 23 off 10.

Patel made his Test debut against South Africa in the second Test of New Zealand's 2006 tour of South Africa.

Former New Zealand coach John Bracewell has described Patel as a "long term investment".^[1] Although he has been a regular member of New Zealand's Test squad since his debut in 2006, Patel has often played second fiddle to Daniel Vettori. Often the selectors decided that pitch would not suit two spinners, and so Patel was dropped in favour of Vettori who was the captain at the time.^[2][3]

Patel played English county cricket for Warwickshire in 2009. On his county debut against Yorkshire he scored 120, a maiden first-class century, and shared a ninth wicket partnership of 233 with Jonathan Trott.^[4]

Patel is not related to former New Zealand spin bowler Dipak Patel.

  Patel bowling in the Adelaide Oval nets.

  References

• Lists of matches and detailed statistics for Jeetan Patel

  External links

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New Zealand squad – 2007 Cricket World Cup Semi-Finalists 3 Taylor 7 Fleming (c) 10 McMillan 11 Vettori 14 Tuffey 17 Gillespie 24 Oram 27 Bond 32 Martin 34 Marshall 39 Patel 40 Vincent 42 McCullum 45 Mason 50 Fulton 56 Styris 70 Franklin Coach: Bracewell Tuffey and Vincent were injured during the tournament and replaced in the squad by Martin and Marshall respectively.

New Zealand squad – 2007 ICC World Twenty20 Semi-Finalists 1 Vettori (c) 2 Bond 3 Fulton 4 Gillespie 5 Hopkins 6 B. McCullum 7 N. McCullum 8 McMillan 9 Martin 10 Oram 11 Patel 12 Scott 13 Styris 14 Taylor 15 Vincent