Parthiv Patel’s professional career in numbers

Parthiv Patel, on Wednesday, bid adieu to all forms of cricket bringing an end to his professional career which began two weeks after his 17th birthday way back in 2002. Parthiv was fast-tracked into the Indian team even before he made his senior debut for his state team, Gujarat. Despite his minimal success at the International level, the keeper-batsman guided Gujarat to new highs and success. Parthiv also represented as many as six franchises in his IPL career and was part of the title-winning campaigns on three occasions.

Here are major stats and records which Parthiv Patel created during his professional career:

1 – Parthiv Patel is the only captain in the Indian domestic circuit to be on the winning side during the final of Inter-State competitions in all three formats – Ranji Trophy (2016-17), Vijay Hazare Trophy (2015-16) and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (2012-13). Parthiv also won Irani Cup and Deodhar Trophy as captain and has been part of a Duleep Trophy team that won the title as well.

1 – Parthiv retires as Gujarat’s leading run-getter in all the three formats of professional cricket. He has scored 7011 in first-class cricket, 2824 runs in List A cricket and 1092 in the Twenty20 format having scored 1092 runs. Parthiv, with 10927 runs across all formats, stands as the only player to amass over 10000 professional runs for the Gujarat team.

5 – Parthiv Patel is the only Indian and one of the eight players in the first-class history to score centuries in five or more consecutive innings which he achieved in 2007. Parthiv recorded scores of 126, 124, 164 and 110 for India A and followed it with 179 for the Rest of India in the Irani Cup.

It was part of Parthiv’s sequence of 10 innings in first-class cricket in 2007 where he had nine 50+ scores including seven in a row and a score of 49. Only two Indians have more than seven successive 50+ scores in FC cricket – Vijay Hazare (9 between 1942-43 and 1943-44) Carlton Saldanha (9 in 1986-87).

Had Parthiv converted his score of 49 into 50 during that sequence, he would have become the first Indian in first-class cricket with ten successive 50+ scores. Only Ernest Tyldesley (in 1926) Sir Don Bradman (1947/48 to 1948) and RS Kaluwitharana (in 1994/95) have 10 successive 50+ FC scores thus far.

17y 152d – Parthiv Patel was 17 years and 152 days when he made Test debut during the 2002 Nottingham Test against England. He is till date the youngest wicketkeeper in the history of Men’s Test cricket.

26 – Parthiv struck 26 centuries across 190 first-class matches which he played as a wicketkeeper scoring as many as 10962 runs. These are the most number of centuries by any Indian while playing as a keeper in FC cricket. Patel played only four FC games as a specialist batsman where he scored 278 with help of a ton.

104 – With 104 first-class appearances for Gujarat, Parthiv retires as the only player to feature in 100+ FC games for his state team. 103 out of the 104 FC games for Gujarat came in the Ranji Trophy itself while another one was during the 2016-17 Irani Cup. He is also the most capped List A player for Gujarat with 82 appearances but is second on the Tweny20 list with 49 games and only behind Chirag Gandhi (50).