R. D. Patel

RD Patel (dates unknown) played cricket for Tanganyika/Tanzania between 1957 and 1968, and also played three first-class matches in the 1960s.

Career A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, In the match against Uganda he scored 138 opening the batting.

In 1958 he played for East Africa against a South African Non-Europeans team captained by Basil D'Oliveira and for Tanganyika against Uganda, playing in the same match again in 1959 and 1960. when he captained a Coast Cricket Association XI against Pakistan International Airlines in Mombasa. His final first-class match was for East Africa against India in 1967. his highest score in first-class cricket.

Shortly before his final first-class match he had played for Tanzania against India, and would last play for them in the East African Quadrangular tournament in Nairobi in 1968. Four years later, he played for a Copperbelt Invitation XI against Glamorgan in Chingola, Zambia.