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title: 22 Patels in a cricket match
date: "2002-11-18T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1034
description: I found this unusual story about a cricket match in England where every single player, official, and scorer shared the surname Patel, highlighting the name's incredible prevalence within the local sporting community.
keywords: [patel, cricket, surname, england, coincidence, sporting culture]
---

An intruiging case of [22 Patels in a cricket match](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/1447033.stm). [via Kamat](http://www.kamat.com/vikas/blog.php?date=11/16/2002)