Anisha Anil Patel (born 17 August 1995) is an English

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er who currently plays for

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and Central Sparks. She plays as a right-arm leg break bowler.

Domestic career

Patel made her county debut in 2012, for

against

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, in which she took 1/10 from 5 overs. In the

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, she took 5 wickets at an average of just 5.20, and a season later she was Warwickshire's joint-leading wicket-taker in the same tournament, with 6 wickets at an average of 14.00. In 2015, she took 8 wickets at an average of 18.62 in the

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. In

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and

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, Patel was Warwickshire's leading wicket-taker in the County Championship, with 14 and 10 wickets, respectively. In 2017 she was also the joint-third leading wicket-taker across the whole tournament, and achieved her List A best bowling figures, taking 6/17 against

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. In 2019, Patel helped her side to the

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title, taking 8 wickets at an average of 14.50, including best bowling figures of 4/12. In the

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, she took 3 wickets at an average of 20.33. In the

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, she was the leading wicket-taker across the entire competition, with 15 wickets at an average of 10.00. She took two four-wicket hauls in the competition, against

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and

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. In 2020, Patel played for Central Sparks in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in five matches, taking 8 wickets at an average of 25.25, the joint-most for the side. Her best bowling of 3/49 came in the Sparks' narrow defeat against

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. In 2021, she played one match for the side in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, taking one wicket, and two matches in the

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, again taking 1 wicket. She played one match for the side in 2022, against Northern Diamonds in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Patel, Anisha 1995 births Living people Cricketers from Birmingham, West Midlands Warwickshire women cricketers Central Sparks cricketers