Uton George Dowe (born 29 March 1949) is a former Jamaican
cricket
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er. He played four
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for the
West Indies
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as a fast bowler from 1971 to 1973.
He played for
Jamaica
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from the 1969–70 season to the 1976–77 season. He was the leading wicket-taker in the
1970–71 Shell Shield season, with 24 wickets at 15.75, including 2 for 34 and 7 for 19 in the match against Combined Leeward and Windward Islands, 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.
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
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in 1972–73, in response to his erratic bowling to
Keith Stackpole
Keith Raymond Stackpole Jr. (born 10 July 1940) is a former Victorian and Australian cricketer who played in 43 Test matches and six One Day Internationals between 1966 and 1974. He went on to become a cricket commentator on radio and TV in t ...
.
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1949 births
Living people
Jamaican cricketers
West Indies Test cricketers
Jamaica cricketers
People from Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica
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