Basil Butcher
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Full Name
Basil Fitzherbert Butcher
Born
September 03, 1933, Port Mourant, Berbice, British Guiana
Died
December 16, 2019 (aged 86y 104d)
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Middle order Batter
A supple, wristy, resolute batsman, Basil Butcher became a consistently reliable performer at No. 4 or 5 in the West Indies order. In his first Test series, against India in 1958-59, he made 486 runs at 69.42, but had a chequered career thereafter, until the 1963 tour of England, when he made 383 runs in eight completed innings, including 133 out of 229 in the memorable draw at Lord's. During an interval in that match he opened a letter which advised him that (against a background of civil war) his wife had had a miscarriage back home in Guyana. Very upset, Butcher continued to play a solid and masterly innings which saved his side. Two fine series against Australia led Richie Benaud to consider him the most difficult of all West Indians to get out. An occasional legspinner himself, the only Test wickets Butcher took were all in one innings - 5 for 34 (four coming in three overs) against England at Port-of-Spain in 1967-68.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Adapted by Wisden from World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary (Oxford, 1996).
Basil Butcher Career Stats
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100s | 50s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 44 | 78 | 6 | 3104 | 209* | 43.11 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 0 |
FC | 169 | 262 | 29 | 11628 | 209* | 49.90 | 31 | 54 | 67 | 0 |
List A | 5 | 4 | 1 | 107 | 57 | 35.66 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Bowling
Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 44 | 6 | 256 | 90 | 5 | 5/34 | 5/51 | 18.00 | 2.10 | 51.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
FC | 169 | - | 2193 | 1217 | 40 | 5/34 | - | 30.42 | 3.32 | 54.8 | - | 1 | 0 |
List A | 5 | - | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1/10 | 1/10 | 10.00 | 5.00 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Debut/Last Matches of Basil Butcher
Test Matches
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