Patel Retires After Disapproved League Ban

Samit Patel, who has announced his status from home cricket, says he "probably wouldn't person played" successful a disapproved T20 convention earlier this twelvemonth had he known it would consequence successful a ban.

Former England all-rounder Patel, 41, and Australian bowler Peter Siddle are some incapable to play successful nan T20 Blast this summertime aft competing successful nan World Legends Pro T20 League successful Goa.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) says players cannot play home cricket for 12 months if they person participated successful a "disapproved" convention specified arsenic this.

As a result, Patel has retired from home cricket successful England but says he will still beryllium playing franchise cricket elsewhere successful nan world.

"I astir apt wouldn't person played it [the World Legends League]," Patel told BBC Sport's Strategic Timeout programme.

"There was a batch of uncertainty astir whether we could play aliases not but we can't get past that now. It conscionable brought this worldly guardant for me."

Patel played 60 times for England betwixt 2008 and 2015 and made 629 appearances for Nottinghamshire complete 22 years.

He past joined Derbyshire connected a two-year white-ball woody successful 2024 and was retired of statement erstwhile he near nan nine astatine nan extremity of past year's T20 Blast, but said he would person liked "one much year" of home cricket if he had not been dealt nan ban.

"I would person played this summer," he said. "I had immoderate chats pinch immoderate counties, we weren't rather astatine a statement signing but we were successful talks, truthful astir apt would've sewage a last-minute woody somewhere."

Patel and Ravi Bopara, who besides retired earlier this year, are nan only 2 players to person featured successful each twelvemonth of nan Blast since it began successful 2003.