Rakesh Bhanuprasad Patel (born 3 October 1978 in Ahmedabad,

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), 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 str ...

er who plays for the

Ahmedabad Rockets Ahmedabad Rockets was one of the nine teams played in the defunct Indian Cricket League. It was captained by former Australian international batsman Damien Martyn. The team represents Ahmedabad, the largest city in the state of Gujarat. The team ...

in the

Indian Cricket League The Indian Cricket League (ICL) was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India. Its two seasons included tournaments between four international teams (World XI, India, Pakistan ...

. Patel, primarily a right-arm fast-medium bowler, played 66 first-class matches for

and

Baroda Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capital ...

before signing for the ICL, where he first played for the

Mumbai Champs Mumbai Champs was one of the nine teams that played in the defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL). The team was based in Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name un ...

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 {{India-cricket-bio-1970s-stub