Jeetan Patel
Jeetan Patel was born in Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand on May 7th, 1980 and is the Cricket Player. At the age of 43, Jeetan Patel biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early career
Patel was earmarked as a promising player early in his career. He competed in age group cricket in Wellington at under 16, 17, and in Kindergarten at 19 years old. In 1999, he played for the New Zealand Cricket Academy in a one-day match against England A, and he debuted for Wellington early next year, with a five wicket bag in a loss to Auckland.
Domestic career
He played for Buckingham Town Cricket Club in the 2004 English Season, making a major contribution to the 1st team and the local development policies. Patel was the first player to play international cricket during his time with Bourton Road in 20 years and the first player to play international cricket.
Patel returned to New Zealand as a bowler during the 2004–05 season, taking 26 first class wickets at an average of 32.84. On the 2004–05 New Zealand A tour of South Africa, he played two one-dayers against South Africa A, represented the North Island in the 2004–05 State of Origins tournament, and competed for the New Zealand Academy in the 2005 Cricket Australia Emerging Players Tournament.
He toured Sri Lanka with New Zealand A later this year, competing in the Triangular A Team Tournament later this year.
He was granted a deal with Wellington in June 2018. In the 2018-19 Super Smash, he was the joint-leading wicket taker for Wellington, with eleven dismissals in nine matches.
International career
Patel made his debut as a supersub for New Zealand in the fourth ODI in 2005. Despite not batting in the XI that scored 238 (all out) in the first innings, Patel was a complete member of the squad under experimental conditions at the time. Craig McMillan was recalled for Zimbabwe's innings but took 1/47 from him.
He returned to the New Zealand squad for the short-form leg of its 2005 tour of South Africa. On his international Twenty20 debut, he was named Man of the Match, taking 3/20 off 4 overs. In the first ODI against the Proteas, he was a supersub, earning a return of 2/48 off 8.
Patel's first home international was the fourth ODI of Sri Lanka's 2005-06 tour of New Zealand, in which he was dubbed Man of the Match. His figures of 2/23 off 10 were the most competitive in the game, despite being a supersub.
In the second Test of New Zealand's 2006 tour of South Africa, his Test debut came against South Africa. John Bracewell, New Zealand's coach, described him as a "long-term investment." Despite being a regular member of New Zealand's Test squad following his debut, Patel didn't make the XI for another match until 2008. Daniel Vettori was captain and first-choice spinner at the time, and selectors invariably refused to select two spinners.
Patel was a regular member of the ODI and Twenty2020 teams but 2007, he had his best year of international cricket, with 20 appearances. His New Zealand career had reached its peak by the end of 2008. He made 13 international appearances and toured Australia with New Zealand A. On December 28, 2008, his last Twenty20 match for New Zealand was against the West Indies. He never played for his country as often as he did.
Patel also holds the joint record for taking the most catches (2) by a substitute fielder in a T20I innings (along with Jonathan Carter, Eoin Morgan, Hashim Amla, Johnson Charles, and Chamu Chibhabha). In a single T20I in 2007, he was the first substitute fielder to catch 2 catches.
His return was attributed to several factors, most obviously his good season with Warwickshire (after 11 wickets he'd taken 38 wickets) and an injury to Daniel Vettori, but also "the dearth of good spinners on the first-class scene in New Zealand," says the New Zealand Herald. He was chosen ahead of second spinner Tarun Nethula for both test defeats and seven wickets in the series.
Patel stayed with the team in Sri Lanka for two tests in November (37 runs), two in South Africa in January 2013 (1 wicket, 13 runs). In Port Elizabeth, his last test appearance was made.
In the first test of the New Zealand team's tour to India in 2016, Mark Craig, one of three frontline spinners in the squad, was injured. Craig was named as Craig's replacement, but according to captain Kane Williamson, "wasn't initially" considered by the tour's selectors. Patel called it "a moment that might be my last one" with just one test remaining on the tour. Patel's recall coincided with Williamson's removal from the playing field due to being stricken with fever. Trent Boult and Lockie Ferguson were named as a replacements on December 31, 2016.
As they began the bowling in the first innings of the 4th ODI vs South Africa in 2017, Patel and Mitchell Santner shared the honor for being the first pair of spinners to start an ODI (start an ODI). This was the first time an ODI event occurred in history.
Patel was selected in New Zealand's squad for the 2017 Champions Trophy in April 2017.