Patel signs new Middlesex contract

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Left-arm spinner Ravi Patel has signed a new three-year contract at Middlesex.

The 22-year-old from Harrow, who is currently sidelined with a back problem, will remain at Lord’s until the end of the 2016 domestic season.

Patel made his Middlesex debut in 2010 and has since taken 54 wickets in all senior forms of the game, with 40 of those coming in 11 first-class appearances.

He has more recently impressed in Twenty20 cricket, claiming 10 scalps in eight t20 matches this year for the Middlesex Panthers.

“Ravi has continued to make good progress at the club,” said Middlesex’s managing director of cricket Angus Fraser.

“Since recovering from the hand injury he sustained during pre-season he has been in most, if not all, of our red and white-ball squads.

“We have always rated Ravi as a first-class bowler but in 2013 he showed how adaptable and smart he is by being extremely effective in t20 cricket.

“He is not the finished article and is aware that there are areas of his game that he needs to work.”

Fraser added: “We believe he has the potential to become a fine bowler and that he will take many wickets for Middlesex over the coming years.”

Meanwhile, fellow left-arm spinner Tom Smith has been allowed to leave the club at the end of the current season and join Gloucestershire on a three-year deal.

Smith, 26, has played in 77 senior matches, taking 68 wickets and scoring 473 runs, but spent the majority of this season on-loan at Gloucestershire.

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