Uthappa made his international debut in 2006 and played 46 ODIs and 13 T20Is, and was part of the team that lifted the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 in South Africa. He also won several domestic titles with Karnataka and won the IPL twice: with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014 and with Chennai Super Kings in 2021.
It has been my greatest honour to represent my country and my state, Karnataka. However, all good things must come to an end, and with a grateful heart, I have decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket.
Thank you all pic.twitter.com/GvWrIx2NRs
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa) September 14, 2022
Uthappa started his domestic career in 2002-03 with Karnataka and ended it with Kerala in the truncated 2020-21 season. He also represented Saurashtra during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons. He played 142 first-class matches, scoring 9446 runs with 22 centuries while averaging nearly 41, and scored another 6534 runs with 16 hundreds in 203 one-day games to average 35.31. In 291 T20 games, the last of which he played in the 2022 IPL for Super Kings, he scored 7272 runs wile striking at 133.08.
He played all 15 seasons of the IPL and represented as many as six teams in the tournament: Super Kings, Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Pune Warriors, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals. He amassed 4952 runs in 205 IPL games, striking at 130.35 and averaging 27.51.
Uthappa was known for his aggressive batting, which earned him an international debut in 2006, but he was dropped soon after the 2007 T20 World Cup because of poor form in 2008. The year before playing his last few matches for India in 2015, he achieved a rare treble with Karnataka, who won the Ranji Trophy, Irani Cup and the Vijay Hazare Trophy in the 2013-14 season. He followed that with a prolific IPL for Knight Riders in 2014, ending the season as the tournament’s leading run-scorer with a tally of 660 runs while striking at 138.
He was rewarded with a return to the Indian side for tours of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in 2014 and 2015 but modest returns meant he was left out again. In between, he led the run charts in the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy season as Karnataka became the first domestic team to repeat their title-winning treble.
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo