prosper utseya Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
prosper utseya is a cricketer(sportsman) from Zimbabwe. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Prosper Utseya
Born
March 26, 1985, Harare
Age
38 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 4 | 164 | 34 | - |
Inn | 8 | 132 | 21 | - |
Runs | 107 | 1406 | 95 | - |
Avg | 15.29 | 16.74 | 7.92 | - |
SR | 46.72 | 58.34 | 83.33 | - |
HS | 45 | 68 | 13 | - |
NO | 1 | 48 | 9 | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
50s | 0 | 4 | 0 | - |
4s | 12 | 88 | 6 | - |
6s | 1 | 17 | 1 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 4 | 164 | 34 | - |
Inn | 6 | 160 | 34 | - |
Balls | 753 | 8571 | 725 | - |
Runs | 410 | 6239 | 820 | - |
Wkt | 10 | 133 | 26 | - |
BBI | 60 / 3 | 36 / 5 | 25 / 3 | - |
BBM | 192 / 5 | 36 / 5 | 25 / 3 | - |
Eco | 3.27 | 4.37 | 6.79 | - |
Avg | 41.0 | 46.91 | 31.54 | - |
5W | 0 | 1 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Zimbabwe
- Easterns (Zimbabwe)
- Mashonaland A
- Mashonaland Eagles
- Mountaineers
- Zimbabwe A
- Zimbabwe Board XI
- Zimbabwe Select XI
- Zimbabwe Under-19s
- Zimbabwe XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Like many Zimbabwe players, he was forced to play for his country in 2004 when the rebel players withdrew and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka. In 2006, he was appointed the national captain and had a wonderful tour of the West Indies when he troubled the great Brian Lara in an ODI.
A canny off spinner, who relies more on pushing it through, Utseya gets through his overs pretty quickly. Before the batsmen realise, Utseya would've completed 5-6 overs, not going for many. His parsimonious nature with the ball and his useful lower-order batting helped Utseya nail a permanent place in the national side.
Domestically, he formed a potent spin combination with Timycen Maruma and has enjoyed considerable success. Utseya resigned from the post of national captain after the T20 World Cup in the West Indies in May 2010.
Over the next few years, Utseya established himself as one of Zimbabwe's key bowlers. He might not have too many wickets to speak of, but his ability to maintain a tight leash on the the run-rate makes him an important part of the Zimbabwe squad.
The year 2014 was an up and down one for Utseya, he picked up his maiden ODI five-wicket haul (which also included an hat-trick) against South Africa and was one of the architects in the upset win over Australia. However, these joys lasted for a month as he was banned from bowling in international cricket for a suspect action. He went through the usual norms and was cleared to bowl, but not his off-breaks. Chief selector, Givemore Makoni, after picking the 15-man World Cup squad for 2015, said \\"He (Utseya) is our mystery spinner, bowling mediums and cutters, and his experience will be vital for us.\\"
By Cricbuzz staff
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
An offspinner who has always been economical without being incisive, Prosper Utseya was first introduced to the game at Chipembere Primary School in the Harare township of Highfield, and won a ZCU scholarship to Churchill High School. A promising talent at school level, he made his first-class debut - opening the batting in the first innings - for Mashonaland A at the age of 15. In 2004, Utseya was unexpectedly thrust into the Zimbabwe national team against Sri Lanka at the age of 19 when the rebel players withdrew. He held onto a place in a weakened national side and, somewhat surprisingly, took up the captaincy from Terry Duffin in 2006.
Utseya came of age with the ball during the tour to West Indies in May 2006, where his flight and spin belied his lack of experience and years. But there weren't a great deal of happy memories for Zimbabwe in the years that followed and Utseya tendered his resignation as national captain after the side's disappointing performance at the World Twenty20 in May 2010, saying that he was stepping down in the interest of the team's future development.
As it turned out, the move also allowed Utseya to focus on his own development. He formed a useful spin-bowling partnership with Ray Price, the pair making an odd, yet effective, couple and even opening the bowling together when conditions warranted it. Utseya honed his game as a limited-overs cricketer, his parsimonious bowling combining with surprisingly agile fielding and a can-do batting attitude to make him an automatic pick for Zimbabwe in ODIs and a senior member of the squad. He became the second Zimbabwean to take an ODI hat-trick in the course of his 5 for 36 against South Africa in August 2014, and later in the same series sealed his place in Zimbabwean cricketing folklore when he hit Mitchell Starc for a towering six to take Zimbabwe to their first ODI victory over Australia in 31 years.
His career hit a major hurdle shortly afterwards, when his action was deemed illegal and he was barred from bowling the offspin that had made him Zimbabwe's most reliable one-day bowler. Utseya was forced to take drastic action, trimming an already minimal bowling action down to its absolute bare bones and remodeling himself as a bowler of slow-medium cutters.
Liam Brickhill