Rajat Patidar IPL Profile

Rajat Manohar Patidar is an Indian cricketer who represents Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket and for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. He is a right-handed top order batter and right-arm off-spinner. Born on  1 June 1993 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Patidar is 29 years of age at the time of IPL 2023. 

Patidar 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 February 2021, Patidar was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL auction ahead of IPL. He managed to score only 71 runs in the four games he played and was subsequently released ahead of IPL 2022. He went unsold in the IPL 2022 Players' Auction. Later, Patidar was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore mid-season as a replacement for the injured Luvnith Sisodia for INR 20 Lakhs.

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 and 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.

Ahead of the 2023 Indian Premier League he was retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore but failed to feature in the tournament due to injury. 

After a fantastic IPL 2022 campaign, Patidar was named in the One-Day International (ODI) 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 Iyer. However, he is yet to make his debut for Men In Blue.