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Rajat Patidar

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. In 2025, under his captaincy, the team won their first title.

Patidar was born on 1 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 and started concentrating on batting after his U-15 levels.

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* (40b, 6x4, 6x6).

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 (102b, 13x4, 7x6).

In February 2021, Patidar was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL auction ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League. He managed to score only 71 runs in the four games he played and was subsequently released.

Patidar went unsold in the 2022 IPL auction but was later signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore as a mid-season replacement. On 25 May 2022, in the Eliminator match in the 2022 Indian Premier League, he scored a match winning 112 not out against Lucknow Super Giants. This proved to be a record-breaking innings for Patidar, as he became the first uncapped player to score a century in the playoff stage of the Indian Premier League. This was also the joint-fastest century (49 balls) by a player in the playoff stage. Patidar ended the 2022 season with 333 runs scored in eight matches at an average of 55.50.

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