Cannot cast java.util.date to java.sql.date

I have the following code snippet where i get continous error for casting java.util.date to java.sql.date.

        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

        storedProcedureCall.setLong(1, 12345);

        storedProcedureCall.setDate(2, (java.sql.Date) sdf.parse("09/02/2017"));
        storedProcedureCall.setDate(3, (java.sql.Date) sdf.parse("10/02/2017"));

What am i doing wrong here. I have imported the java.util.Date package as well.