Kenneth Uttley

Kenneth Frank McNeill Uttley (21 August 1913 – 15 June 1973) was a New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago, Canterbury and Wellington in his 37 first-class matches between 1933 and 1952.[1] He was a right-handed opening batsman who scored 2,053 runs at an average of 31.10 in first-class cricket, including three centuries.[2] His son Ian Uttley played for the New Zealand national rugby union team in 1963.[3]

He captained Otago in 1937–38, when he was the highest scorer in the Plunket Shield, with 420 runs at an average of 70.00.[4] In the second match, against Auckland, he scored 132 and 138.[5]

He qualified as a doctor in 1939 at the University of Otago. From 1940 he trained as a pathologist at Christchurch Hospital, where he established the blood bank. He later worked at hospitals in Timaru and Palmerston North, where he died suddenly in 1973.[3]