ajaz patel Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ajaz patel is a cricketer(sportsman) from New Zealand. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Ajaz Yunus Patel
Born
October 21, 1988, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
Age
35 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 14 | - | 7 | - |
Inn | 19 | - | 2 | - |
Runs | 126 | - | 7 | - |
Avg | 11.45 | - | 3.5 | - |
SR | 35.59 | - | 50.0 | - |
HS | 35 | - | 4 | - |
NO | 8 | - | 0 | - |
100s | 0 | - | 0 | - |
50s | 0 | - | 0 | - |
4s | 13 | - | 0 | - |
6s | 0 | - | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 14 | - | 7 | - |
Inn | 25 | - | 7 | - |
Balls | 2999 | - | 156 | - |
Runs | 1510 | - | 118 | - |
Wkt | 48 | - | 11 | - |
BBI | 119 / 10 | - | 16 / 4 | - |
BBM | 225 / 14 | - | 16 / 4 | - |
Eco | 3.02 | - | 4.54 | - |
Avg | 31.46 | - | 10.73 | - |
5W | 3 | - | 0 | - |
10W | 1 | - | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- New Zealand
- Auckland
- Auckland A
- Central Districts
- Central Districts A
- Glamorgan
- New Zealand A
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Ajaz played for Auckland A without much luck and when he moved to Central Districts, he was soon fast tracked into first class cricket - making his debut in 2012. He made his T20 debut also in the same year but had to wait to play 50-over cricket for three more years.
However, it was red-ball cricket that Ajaz impressed everyone in. He kept picking wickets at consistent basis but found it hard to break into the New Zealand squad, who already had Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi in the ranks. The former was a major roadblock as he gave more with the bat compared to Ajaz.
That did not deter Ajaz as he kept performing for Central Districts, picking up 16 five-fers and three 10-wicket hauls. 2018 was a great year for the spinner as he finished as the leading wicket-taker in Plunket Shield - 48 wickets in 9 games. In the process. Ajaz was awarded with the Men's Domestic Player of the Year.
Ajaz got his maiden New Zealand call-up for the 2018 Pakistan series in UAE. The absence of an injured Mitchell Santner opened the door of opportunity and he grabbed it with both hands. While his maiden appearance for New Zealand was low-profile in the T20Is, Patel made his presence felt straightaway in the longest format as he bagged the Man of the Match award on Test debut. He scalped seven wickets - including a maiden Test fifer in the second essay - which helped his side beat Pakistan in a thriller by four runs at Abu Dhabi.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
One minute, he was sitting down to eat dinner with nearly 30 of his closest family. The next, he was being told that he was on the Test squad to play for New Zealand. Meet Ajaz Patel, a left-arm spinner who was, like many before him, a fast bowler growing up.
It wasn't until he was in his twenties that he realised he needed to make a change. "Being 5 foot 6 wasn't quite going to cut it at the next level." Dabbling with it in a club game, he realised it might even be fun to bowl spin and the rest, as it turned out, was history. On October 31, 2018 - at the age of 30 - Ajaz opened the bowling for New Zealand in a T20I against Pakistan. Exactly like his coach Dipak Patel did in the 1992 World Cup. Clearly, it was kismet.
Ajaz's rise to international cricket was built on repeated success at domestic level. He was the highest wicket-taker in first-class cricket for three years running before he got the call from selector Gavin Larsen in July 2018. In fact, he had played an immense part in Central Stags winning the title that year with 48 wickets at 21.52. Having emigrated with his family from Mumbai in 1996, he became the fifth Indian-origin cricketer to play for New Zealand since Ted Badcock, Tom Puna, Ish Sodhi and his buddy from school Jeet Raval.