Kaushik Patel

Kaushik Narshibhai Patel (born 8 October 1963) is a Kenyan born former English cricketer. Patel was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Nairobi. Patel made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1994 Minor Counties Championship against Suffolk. Patel played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1994 to 1996, which included 11 Minor Counties Championship matches and a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match. In 1995, he made his List A debut against Kent in the NatWest Trophy. In this match, he scored a single run before being run out. He played a further List A match against Derbyshire in the 1996 NatWest Trophy, a match in which he was dismissed for a duck by Phil DeFreitas. His brother, Dipak, played Test cricket for New Zealand, as well as first-class cricket for a number of teams.