Uton Dowe

Uton Dowe
Cricket information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
International information
National side
  • West Indian
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 4 27
Runs scored 8 128
Batting average 8.00 7.11
100s/50s -/- -/-
Top score 5* 25*
Balls bowled 1014 5167
Wickets 12 97
Bowling average 44.50 27.86
5 wickets in innings - 3
10 wickets in match - -
Best bowling 4/69 7/19
Catches/stumpings 3/- 9/-
Source:

Uton George Dowe (born 29 March 1949) was a Jamaican cricketer. He played four Tests for the West Indies as a fast bowler from 1971 to 1973.

He played for Jamaica from 1969-70 to 1976-77. He was the leading wicket-taker in the Shell Shield in 1970-71, with 24 wickets at 15.75, including 2 for 34 and 7 for 19 in the match against Combined Leeward and Windward Islands,[1] a performance which was immediately rewarded with his Test debut in the Fourth Test against India, in which he took 4 for 69 and 1 for 22.[2]

Despite his short Test career, Dowe is famous for the so-called 11th commandment, 'Dowe shalt not bowl', dished out to him by spectators in his final Test match against Australia in 1972-73, in response to his erratic bowling to Keith Stackpole.[3]

References

  1. Combined Leeward and Windward Islands v Jamaica 1970-71
  2. West Indies v India, Bridgetown 1970-71
  3. Sobers, G. (1988) Twenty Years at the Top, Macmillan, London, p.24

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