India, Sept. 18 -- Robin Uthappa played 142 First Class cricket matches, but only 99 of those came for Karnataka, falling just short of a century of matches for his home team. Ending a 15-year journey with Karnataka in 2017, he spent the remainder of his career split between representing Saurashtra and Kerala. In an interview on the First Umpire podcast, he gave a tell-all account of the tensions within the team which led to him parting ways with the Karnataka team.

Speaking of his last couple of years in the Karnataka team in the Ranji Trophy, Uthappa explained how he was reaching some incredibly strong form, but was frustrated by how it didn't earn him any attention from the Indian Test team selectors. He would go on to give an intervi...