{"id":671650,"date":"2026-07-03T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671650\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:47:08","slug":"rishi-patel-leicestershire-batter-to-leave-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671650\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Patel: Leicestershire batter to leave at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire batter Rishi Patel will leave at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old has been instrumental in helping turn the Foxes from a side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/65030071\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spent years struggling as a first-class county<\/a> into one that has won two major titles in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was part of the Leicestershire team that ended the 38-year wait for a List A trophy when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/66831277\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed the One-Day Cup in 2023<\/a> and, two years later, part of the promotion-winning County Championship side that went up as Division Two title winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patel is Leicestershire&#8217;s leading scorer in the four-day game this season, with 587 runs &#8211; which includes a top score of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cqxldqewj7no\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">164 against Surrey in their draw<\/a> earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The batter said he had &#8220;decided to make a change&#8221; after six years at the Foxes and added that it was &#8220;the right time&#8221; to move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a tough decision to make leaving a club that gave me an opportunity to play professional cricket,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/leicestershireccc.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Leicestershire will always hold a special place in my heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire&#8217;s director of cricket Claude Henderson said he attempted to convince Patel to stay on, but said the club &#8220;respected his decision&#8221; to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire batter Rishi Patel will leave at the end of the season. The 27-year-old has been instrumental in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}