Rajat Patidar born 1 June 1993 is an indian international cricketer. he is a right-handed top order batter and an off-spin bowler. he made his international debut against south africa in December 2023. Patidar plays for Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket and captains the royal challengers Bengaluru in the indian premier league. under Rajat Patidar’s captaincy, RCB won back-to-back IPL titles in 2025 and 2026.
who is Rajat Patidar?
Rajat Patidar (born 1 June 1993) is an indian internation cricketer. he is a right- handed top order batter and an off-spin bowler. he made his international debut against south africa in December 2023. Patidar plays for Madya Pradesh in domestic and the royal challengers Bengaluru in the indian premier league.
Early life
Patidar was born on 01 June 1993 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 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 started concentrating on batting after his U-15 levels.
international career.
as a result of a phenomenal domestic season and his performances in 2022 IPL seasons, Patidar was named in the one -day international squad for the series against south africa in the month of October . later in February 2023 he was named in the ODI squad against new Zealand as an injury replacement for Shreyas lyer. however he failed to make playing eleven on both the occasions.
domestic career
he made his first -class debut on 30 October 2015 in the 2015-16 Ranji trophy he made his twenty20 debut for Madhya Pradesh in the 2017-18 zonal T20 league on 8 January 2018.
he was the leading run – scorer for Madhya Pradesh in the 2018-19 Ranji trophy, with 713 runs in eight matches. in august 2019, he was named in the india blue team s squad for the 2019-20 duleep trophy.
in Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy 2024-25, Rajat Patidar was named the captain for Madhya Pradesh cricket team where he was the 2nd highest run scorer of the tournament scoring 428 runs in 9 innings at an average of 61.14 and a strike rate of 186.08 with 5 half centuries. he also lead his team to finals and displayed one- man show performance scoring 81*.
rajat patidar also holds the record of hitting the 5th fastest century in ranji trophy scoring a 100 in just 68 balls against haryana. his score at the end of this match was 159.