Samit Rohit Patel (born November 30, 1984 in London) is an English cricketer. As a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm bowler, he plays first-class cricket for the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Patel made his One Day International debut for England in August 2008 but was later dumped after failing to reach the fitness level. After a two and a half year absence, he returned to the ODI team in 2011 and made his Twenty20 International debut before becoming the 651st in 2012.
In June 2021, during the t20 Blast 2021, Patel became the first English player to double in T20 cricket by taking 250 wickets and scoring 5,000 runs.

Domestic and T20 career

Since making his debut for Nottinghamshire at the age of 16, Patel has been consistent with the team, in both top-rated and list A games. He was the only man in English Twenty20 history to claim a double wicket maid when Nottinghamshire played Derbyshire in New Road, Worcester in 2006. He had 887 runs in the county championship in 2007, including four centuries - he also took 10 wickets and exceeded the county's bowling averages.

In the 2008 season, Patel made a steady start in Nottinghamshire's top notch campaign, scoring a century against Durham and three half centuries. Nottinghamshire was runner-up to Durham in the 2009 County Championship; out of 15 games, Patel scored 712 runs (the fourth most for the club that year) with an average of 30.95, with a high of 95. He also took 32 wickets with an average of 47.84 with two five wicket hauls.

In January 2010, Patel signed a three-year contract with Nottinghamshire. He partially funded a trip to the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy in Australia, where he spent February and March, which was partially aimed at improving his fitness. When Nottinghamshire won the County Championship in 2010, Patel contributed fewer runs: 641 out of 16 games averaging 26.70, making him the club's sixth highest run scorer in this year's competition. His only century of competition, an innings of 104 balls out of 185, came in a loss to Somerset in July.

International career

Patel made his debut for England's senior team in a game against Scotland on August 18, 2008. His first wicket was that of Neil McCallum and he finished with numbers 1/22 of seven overs; he also took a catch and ran out of Scotland captain Ryan Watson. Patel remained part of the English ODI team for the series against South Africa later that summer, winning the notable wicket of Herschelle Gibbs in the series' first ODI at Headingley. He posted numbers of 5/41 and scored 31 runs with 49 balls in the third ODI to win the man of the game when England claimed the series. In September 2008 it was announced that Patel and six other players - the group consisted mainly of ODI specialists - would gradually receive contracts with the England Cricket Board (ECB).

Patel made his first appearance of the tournament against Afghanistan and finished with exceptional numbers, 2-6 out of three overs when England won with 116 runs. He also played against the West Indies but was more expensive and ended in numbers 0-38 with England losing 15 runs. He played in England's last game of the tournament against Sri Lanka when he was at the top with 67 points while England reached 150, 19 runs below Sri Lanka's total. England failed to qualify for the semi-finals.

After a three-year absence from England's test team, Patel was called up for England's series against Pakistan in October 2015 after Zafar Ansari was disfellowshipped with a hand injury. He played in the third Test and took numbers 2-85 in Pakistan's first innings before making 42 with the bat. He took 1-79 in Pakistan's second innings but was then sacked for a duck as England lost 127 runs.