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Parthiv Patel

India

Full name Parthiv Ajay Patel

Born March 9, 1985, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Current age 24 years 243 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	20	30	7	683	69	29.69	1527	44.72	0	4	93	0	41	8
ODIs	14	10	1	132	28	14.66	226	58.40	0	0	13	0	12	3
First-class	103	150	19	5152	206	39.32			10	30			257	42
List A	88	78	5	1860	71	25.47	2376	78.28	0	12			97	35
Twenty20	35	34	2	690	57	21.56	616	112.01	0	3	98	8	15	5

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	103		18	9	0	-	-	-	3.00	-	0	0	0
List A	88	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	England v India at Nottingham, Aug 8-12, 2002 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (PSS), Aug 8-11, 2008 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
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First-class debut	2001/02
Last First-class	Gujarat v Orissa at Ahmedabad, Nov 3-6, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2001/02
Last List A	India Green v India Red at Nagpur, Oct 9, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v PCA Masters XI at Leicester, Sep 15, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Gujarat v Saurashtra at Poona, Oct 25, 2009 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. Parthivl'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. Parthiv'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 Parthiv opened up with a fourth century on the trot.

In 2008, his efforts were rewarded with a call-up to the squad for the Test-series in Sri Lanka.

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.