Full Name

Clyde Godfrey Butts

Born

July 08, 1957, Perseverance, East Coast, Demerara, British Guiana

Died

December 08, 2023, Guyana, (aged 66y 153d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Other

Administrator

Being a West Indian spinner in the 1980s was a bit like being a trained opera singer in a boy band, so spare a thought for Clyde Butts, who was born in a village called Perseverance. He hardly got a game because of the excellence - mostly in the field - of his fellow offspinner Roger Harper, and his only chance of a bowl was if the Windies quicks didn't blow the opposition away. In the second of his seven Tests, at Lahore in 1986-87, Butts didn't get on at all, and in all he took a wicket every 155 balls - or 26 overs. He married on the rest day of his Test debut, against New Zealand in Guyana in 1984-85. Butts was the last of ten children - his parents stopped just short of a full XI. He became a national selector and headed the selection panel in July 2008.

Clyde Butts Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests7811083815.4227938.700010320
FC8710616143157*15.90--02--420
List A3222921637*16.61--00--80

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests7101554595104/736/9559.502.29155.4100
FC87-2229584213487/29-24.192.2664.0-232
List A32-1728871324/254/2527.213.0254.0100
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Debut/Last Matches of Clyde Butts

FC Matches

Span
1980/81 - 1993/94

List A Matches

Span
1983/84 - 1993/94

Recent Matches of Clyde Butts

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
West Indies vs India0 & 380/62 & 0/6211-Jan-1988ChennaiTest # 1089
West Indies vs India--0/12226-Dec-1987Eden GardensTest # 1088
West Indies vs India182/59 & 0/011-Dec-1987WankhedeTest # 1085
West Indians vs Shell XI--1/6806-Mar-1987NapierFC
West Indies vs New Zealand8*2/21 & 0/6127-Feb-1987AucklandTest # 1070

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Clyde Butts played seven Tests for West Indies in the 1980s