robin uthappa Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
robin uthappa is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Robin Venu Uthappa
Born
November 11, 1985, Coorg, Karnataka
Age
37 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Fielding Position
Occasional Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 46 | 13 | 205 |
Inn | - | 42 | 12 | 197 |
Runs | - | 934 | 249 | 4952 |
Avg | - | 25.94 | 24.9 | 27.51 |
SR | - | 90.59 | 118.01 | 130.35 |
HS | - | 86 | 50 | 88 |
NO | - | 6 | 2 | 17 |
100s | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | - | 6 | 1 | 27 |
4s | - | 107 | 26 | 481 |
6s | - | 19 | 6 | 182 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 46 | 13 | 205 |
Inn | - | 1 | - | - |
Balls | - | 2 | - | - |
Runs | - | 0 | - | - |
Wkt | - | 0 | - | - |
BBI | - | 0 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | - | 0 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | - | 0.0 | - | - |
Avg | - | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | - | 0 | - | - |
10W | - | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Air India
- Air India Red
- Atlanta Riders
- Bangalore Brigadiers (Urban)
- Bellary Tuskers
- Bengaluru Blasters
- Bijapur Bulls
- Chennai Super Kings
- Cricket Club of India
- Dubai Capitals
- India A
- India B
- India Blue
- India Green
- India Maharajas
- India Red
- India Under-19s
- Indian Board President's XI
- Karnataka
- Karnataka State Cricket Association
- Karnataka State Cricket Association President's XI
- Karnataka State Cricket Association XI
- Kerala
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Mumbai Indians
- Pune Warriors
- Rajasthan Royals
- Reebok XI
- Rest of India
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Saurashtra
- South Zone
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Uthappa had a dream debut as he scored a well compiled 86, opening the innings at Indore. He was given a decent run since then and was also part of the 50-over World Cup squad in 2007. The action shifted to South Africa for the inaugural edition of the World T20 the same year and Uthappa had a good beginning before fading away. However, he played all the matches in the tournament, which was won by India.
However, his form dipped after the Asia Cup in 2008 and with the emergence of Virat Kohli, Uthappa was overlooked by the selectors. A good 2013-14 season for Karnataka despite missing out on a few matches early in the season saw him back in the national frame and he had done enough to convince the national selectors again and he was picked for India again after six years for the tour of Bangladesh in 2014. However, lack of consistency was his bane and he left out of the team after another try in 2015.
Uthappa's skirmishes with his state board led to his exit from Karnataka and he was signed up by Saurashtra ahead of the 2017-18 Indian domestic season.
IPL through the years
One of the few players who have featured consistently across all the years of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Robin Uthappa's career blossomed only after he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), ahead of the 2014 season of the cash-rich tournament. The seeds for an impressive IPL career was first sown at the 2007 World Twenty20, where Uthappa played a prominent role in Indian annexing the first-ever World T20 championships.
Buoyed by his performance, Mumbai Indians shelled out US $800,000 to avail of his services. It turned out to be a disappointing first season for Uthappa with the Mumbai-based franchise and he was traded with Zaheer Khan as he shifted base back to home at the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), ahead of the 2009 auctions. It was however in 2010 that Uthappa started flourishing, first for RCB who played him as a finisher and then as a lead batsman for the now defunct Pune Warriors India. His performances meant he was always in high demand and Uthappa joined Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014.
Putting in a stirring performance, Uthappa shone in his role as an opener, bagging the orange cap, with 660 runs, which included a record breaking sequence of 11 40+ scores. It was this consistency that helped KKR bag the coveted trophy for the second time. Uthappa has since been a constant in the KKR franchise, although he has never been able to top the stats of 2014. The runs stopped flowing consistently from his blade, but his ability to counter-punch and his wide range of strokes meant that he remained an integral part of the KKR franchise. However, an underwhelming 2018 and 2019 forced the management to do the unimaginable, and they released him for the 2020 auctions where he was signed up by Rajasthan Royals who had themselves released Ajinkya Rahane. It's likely that Uthappa will take up the opener's slot for RR.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
As a batter Robin Uthappa was attractive to watch, hard-hitting, equipped with every shot in the book, and unafraid to hit the ball in the air - arguably to the point where tempering his strokeplay became a problem and kept him out of the Indian team for long periods.
Uthappa first caught the eye with a brilliant 66 in a loss for India B against India A in the Challenger Trophy in Mumbai in 2005, against an attack that included Zaheer Khan, Murali Kartik and RP Singh. In the following year's tournament, in Mohali, he cracked a match-winning 93-ball hundred for India B. The reward was a place in the senior India side in the final ODI of the home series against England early in 2006, and he capitalised with a well-paced 86. One of his finest performances came a year and a half later, when he produced a nerveless unbeaten 47 off 33 balls to help India seal a rousing win against England again at The Oval.
Uthappa was a part of the Indian squad that won the World T20 in 2007, but he had a poor year in international cricket in 2008, averaging under 20 in 14 matches. That resulted in him being dropped from the Indian team, and he also had a few fairly ordinary seasons in domestic cricket. He made a comeback in 2013-14, when his side, Karnataka, won the Ranji Trophy, Irani Cup and Vijay Hazare Trophy. Uthappa followed that up with an outstanding IPL in 2014, in which he scored 40 or more in ten successive innings for title winners Kolkata Knight Riders, and was the leading run-scorer of the tournament. The reward was a place in the Indian team for the tour to Bangladesh for the ODI series in 2014, where he made a fifty in a series of rain-interrupted matches.
He was left out of the national side again, but produced his best domestic season, with over 1100 runs at an average of above 50 in 2014-15, when Karnataka became the first domestic team to repeat their title-winning triple of the previous season. He played another handful of white-ball games for India in 2015, which proved to be his last international appearances.
Uthappa remained a force for KKR through to 2019, and played 86 games in all for them, making just under 2500 runs at a strike rate of 136. He then moved to Rajasthan Royals for a season and ended his career at Chennai Super Kings in 2022, announcing he was retiring from all Indian and international cricket later that year.