Ashish Patel (born July 31, 1975) is a Canadian

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. A medium-pacer, he took his place in the team given the absence of several players for the

2002 ICC Americas Championship The 2002 ICC Americas Championship was a cricket tournament in Argentina, taking place between 12 March and 16 March 2002. It gave six North and South American Associate and Affiliate members of the International Cricket Council experience of in ...

, followed by a strong performance in the

2002 ICC Six Nations Challenge The 2002 ICC Six Nations Challenge was the second edition of the ICC Six Nations Challenge. It was an international limited-overs cricket tournament held in Namibia from 7 to 14 April 2002. All matches at the tournament were played in Windhoek. ...

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. He participated in the

2003 Cricket World Cup The 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup was the eighth Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya from 9 February to 23 March 2003. This edition of the World Cup was the f ...

, and made an impressive debut in which he disposed of

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Herschelle Gibbs Herschelle Herman Gibbs (born 23 February 1974) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years. A right-handed batsman, mostly opened the batting, Gibbs became the first player to hi ...

and

Jacques Kallis Jacques Henry Kallis (born 16 October 1975) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and as South Africa's greatest batsman ever, he is a right-handed batsman and right ...

. He took more wickets than any other bowler in the

2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge The 2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge was an international limited-overs cricket tournament held in the United Arab Emirates from 29 February to 6 March 2004. Matches were played in Dubai and Sharjah Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gul ...

. He has not played for

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since the final of the

2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup The 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the inaugural edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup first class cricket tournament, an international cricket tournament between nations who have not been awarded Test status by the International Cricket Co ...

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