I like Patel, but I actually agree with Simon Doull in that he should never wear the Silver Fern again for repeating that absolutely gutless display with the bat. Show some balls and get in line. To continue to just back away and expose his stumps like that is just an awful symbol of our complete and utter capitulation.
My father made exactly this point. He said that in his day if a batsman showed an overfondness for backing away to the quicks the coach would bang a stake into the ground just outside leg stump and tie the batsman's leg to it with a short length of cord, then direct the quicks to keep chucking them down until he showed some balls and got in line.
If anything Patel will probably be sent for some sort of one on one counseling with a sports psychologist.