Cricket: Patel may be at the heart of the action; SPREADWISE.Byline: By James Milton WITH the ODI series already lost in embarrassing circumstances, England will be keen to take positives from three relatively pressure-free dead rubbers before the first Test against India. England's Samit Patel Samit Rohit Patel born 30 November 1984, Leicester, England is an English cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Nottinghamshire. Patel was educated at Eastwood Comprehensive but later on he studied at Worksop College in North Nottinghamshire where he was a member will fly home after the one-day series, but the busy Nottinghamshire all-rounder may be able to make an impact in Cuttack today. Patel - like his team-mates - has struggled to put in match-winning performances thus far but he is always in the action, with bat, ball or in the field. Patel's spread performances during the series have made up at 68, 30, 26 and 31 - the last one in the fourth ODI, which was reduced to 22 overs each - and he has the potential to put in a good shift today. A powerful lower-order hitter, with a strike-rate of over 93 in the early days of his international career, Patel's left-arm spin could suit the pitch at Cuttack. In the most recent match there - also a day-nighter - the West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. were skittled for 169 by spinners Harbhajan Singh For other people named Harbhajan Singh, see . Harbhajan Singh pronunciation (Punjabi: , Ramesh Powar and Sachin Tendulkar. With helpful conditions, Patel could easily pick up a wicket or two and he has chipped in with at least 20 in four of his five innings in ODI matches. Recommendation Buy S Patel performance 1pt at 38 Sporting |
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