Clyde Butts
West Indies
INTL CAREER: 1985 - 1988
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
TEAMS
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.
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