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Rajat Patidar
Personal information
Full name	Rajat Manohar Patidar
Born	1 June 1993 (age 31); Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off break
Role	Top-order batter
International information
National side	India (2023–present);
Test debut (cap 310)	2 February 2024 v England
Last Test	15 February 2024 v England
Only ODI (cap 255)	21 December 2023 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.	87
Domestic team information
2015–present	Madhya Pradesh
2021–present	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Career statistics
	Source: ESPNcricinfo, 17 March 2023

Rajat Manohar Patidar (born 1 June 1993) is an Indian International cricketer. He is a right-handed top order batter and off-spinner. He plays for Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket and for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League.^[1] On 21 December 2023, he made his international debut against South Africa.

Early life

Patidar was born on 1 June 1993 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.^[2] His father is a businessman. He joined a cricket club when he was 8 years old and was later enrolled into an academy by his grandfather. He started his career as a bowler and started concentrating on batting after his U-15 levels.^[3]

Education

Patidar attended New Digamber Public School in Indore where he completed his primary and secondary education. He later graduated from Guru Vashishtha collage Dewas Madhya Pradesh

Domestic career

He made his first-class debut on 30 October 2015 in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.^[4] He made his Twenty20 debut for Madhya Pradesh in the 2017–18 Zonal T20 League on 8 January 2018.^[5]

He was the leading run-scorer for Madhya Pradesh in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, with 713 runs in eight matches.^[6] In August 2019, he was named in the India Blue team's squad for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy.^[7]^[8]

In February 2021, Patidar was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore (now Royal Challengers Bengaluru) in the IPL auction ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League.^[9] He managed to score only 71 runs in the four games he played and was subsequently released ahead of the 2022 Indian Premier League.

Patidar went unsold in the 2022 IPL Player Auction. Later, Patidar was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore mid-season as a replacement for the injured Luvnith Sisodia for INR 20 Lakhs.^[10] On 25 May 2022, in the Eliminator match in the 2022 Indian Premier League, Patidar scored a match winning knock of 112* (54) against Lucknow Super Giants.^[11]^[12] This proved to be a record-breaking innings for Patidar, as he became the first uncapped player to score a century in the playoffs stage of the Indian Premier League. This was also the joint-fastest century (49 balls) by a player in the playoffs stage, he equaled the record of Wridhiman Saha, who also scored a 49 ball century for the Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in the 2014 IPL Finals.^[13] Patidar ended the 2022 season with 333 runs scored in just 8 matches at an average of 55.50 with the help of a century and 2 half-centuries. Ahead of the 2023 Indian Premier League he was retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore. In IPL 2025 he was one of the 3 retentions of RCB. He was appointed as a captain for Madhya Pradesh for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

Additionally, he had an average of 55.50 and a strike rate of 152.75 and also played exceptionally well in the Ranji Trophy.^[14]

International career

As a result of a phenomenal domestic season and his performances in 2022 IPL season, Patidar was named in the One-Day International (ODI) squad for the series against South Africa in the month of October.^[15] Later in February 2023 he was named in the ODI squad against New Zealand as an injury replacement for Shreyas Iyer.^[16] However he failed to make it to the playing eleven on both the occasions.

He made his ODI debut on 21 December 2023 against South Africa, where he scored 22 runs in 16 balls.

In January 2024, he was named as a replacement for Virat Kohli in India's squad for the first two matches of the test series against England. He made his Test debut on 2 February 2024 in the second match of the series, scoring 32 and 9 runs in the first and second innings, respectively.^[17]^[18]^[19]