 Pattison made four Youth Test appearances for England Under-19s, at the 2000 Under-19 World Cup, while still seventeen years of age.Following this, in 2000 and 2001 he played in Under-19 tours involving Sri Lanka and India.Pattison played his debut County Championship match during the 2002 season, an appearance which included a painfully slow innings of 6 runs, and a second-ball duck which did little for his confidence, and he only played two further games in the season.