Rakesh Bhanuprasad Patel (born 3 October 1978 in
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...
,
Gujarat,
India), is an Indian
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 striki ...
er who plays for the
Ahmedabad Rockets in the
Indian Cricket League.
Patel, primarily a right-arm fast-medium bowler, played 66 first-class matches for
Gujarat and
Baroda before signing for the ICL, where he first played for the
Mumbai Champs before moving to the newly formed Rockets team.
He scored six half-centuries at first-class level and took 234 wickets.
In 2019, it was discovered he is now a street vendor for indian tea ('chaiwala') in the province of Anand, which is a satellite city of Ahmadabad.
References
Player profile from Cricket Archive*
Living people
1978 births
Gujarat cricketers
Baroda cricketers
West Zone cricketers
Indian cricketers
Ahmedabad Rockets cricketers
Cricketers from Ahmedabad
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