English cricketer
Anisha Anil Patel (born 17 August 1995) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Warwickshire. She plays as a right-arm leg break bowler.[1][2]
Domestic career
Patel made her county debut in 2012, for Warwickshire against Lancashire, in which she took 1/10 from 5 overs.[3] In the 2013 Women's Twenty20 Cup, 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.[4][5] In 2015, she took 8 wickets at an average of 18.62 in the County Championship.[6]
In 2017 and 2018, Patel was Warwickshire's leading wicket-taker in the County Championship, with 14 and 10 wickets, respectively.[7][8] 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 Nottinghamshire.[9][10] In 2019, Patel helped her side to the Twenty20 Cup title, taking 8 wickets at an average of 14.50, including best bowling figures of 4/12.[11] In the 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup, she took 3 wickets at an average of 20.33.[12] In the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, she was the leading wicket-taker across the entire competition, with 15 wickets at an average of 10.00.[13] She took two four-wicket hauls in the competition, against Somerset and Gloucestershire.[14][15] She took two wickets in Warwickshire's two 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup matches.[16]
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.[17] Her best bowling of 3/49 came in the Sparks' narrow defeat against Lightning.[18] In 2021, she played one match for the side in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, taking one wicket, and two matches in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, again taking 1 wicket.[19][20] She played one match for the side in 2022, against Northern Diamonds in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.[21][22] She was named in the side's squad for the 2023 season, but did not play a match.[23]
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