| Anisha Patel | |
| Female: | true |
| Fullname: | Anisha Anil Patel |
| Birth Date: | 17 August 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm leg break |
| Role: | Bowler |
| Club1: | Warwickshire |
| Club2: | Central Sparks |
| Year2: | 2020–2024 |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | WLA |
| Matches1: | 50 |
| Runs1: | 56 |
| Bat Avg1: | 3.73 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 14 |
| Deliveries1: | 1,715 |
| Wickets1: | 48 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 23.16 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 6/17 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 13/– |
| Column2: | WT20 |
| Matches2: | 64 |
| Runs2: | 11 |
| Bat Avg2: | 1.83 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
| Top Score2: | 3 |
| Deliveries2: | 1,097 |
| Wickets2: | 65 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 15.29 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 4/7 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 8/– |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/502/502367/502367.html CricketArchive |
| Date: | 16 October |
| Year: | 2024 |
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]
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]