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Full name Brijesh Pursuram Patel
Born November 24, 1952, Baroda, Gujarat
Current age 55 years 271 days
Major teams India,Karnataka,Mysore,Wellington
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Other Administrator
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
21
38
5
972
115*
29.45
1
5
7
17
0
ODIs
10
9
1
243
82
30.37
399
60.90
0
1
1
0
First-class
203
311
50
11911
216
45.63
37
55
85
0
List A
47
43
7
1430
83*
39.72
0
10
10
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
21
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
203
406
215
7
1/0
30.71
3.17
58.0
0
0
List A
47
18
9
2
1/0
1/0
4.50
3.00
9.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v India at Manchester, Jun 6-11, 1974 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v India at Perth, Dec 16-21, 1977 scorecard
India v Sri Lanka at Manchester, Jun 16-18, 1979 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1969/70 - 1987/88
List A span
1973/74 - 1985/86
Profile
A dashing right-hand middle-order batsman and a prolific run getter at domestic level, Brijesh Patel was also the outstanding outfielder in Indian cricket in the seventies. Very much the `glamour boy' of the game at his peak, Patel was capable of ripping apart the best of bowling on his day. However he was suspect against pace or the swinging ball when conditions helped bowlers and he was exposed on the tours of England in 1974 and 1979 and in Australia in 1977-78. But he did very well in the West Indies in 1976, when in his four innings, he
scored 207 runs at an average of 207.00. This included his only Test hundred, 115 not out at Port of Spain when he added 204 runs for the fifth wicket with Sunil Gavaskar. Three other notable innings were 73 not out against West Indies in a losing cause at Bombay in 1974-75, a strokefilled 83 against England at the same venue two years later and a hurricane 82 against New Zealand again at Bombay in 1976-77. After failing on the tour of Australia the following season, he was dropped only to be brought back for the tour of England in 1979 keeping the World Cup in mind. He was one of the first Indian cricketers to be a
natural for the shorter version of the game.
But if Patel's international career was not in keeping with his initial promise, at the domestic level, he was verily the monarch. For a long while he held the two most important batting records in the Ranji Trophy - most runs (7126 at an average of 57.00) and most centuries (26). In his heyday, he played some of the most commanding knocks in the national competition and the Duleep Trophy. After
retiring, he was a Test selector and then went into administration and was elected secretary of the Karnataka State Cricket Association.
Partab Ramchand
