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Full name Clyde Godfrey Butts
Born July 8, 1957, Perseverance, East Coast, Demerara, British Guiana
Current age 51 years 99 days
Major teams West Indies,Guyana
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
7
8
1
108
38
15.42
279
38.70
0
0
10
3
2
0
First-class
87
106
16
1431
57*
15.90
0
2
42
0
List A
32
22
9
216
37*
16.61
0
0
8
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
7
10
1554
595
10
4/73
6/95
59.50
2.29
155.4
1
0
0
First-class
87
22295
8421
348
7/29
24.19
2.26
64.0
23
2
List A
32
1728
871
32
4/25
4/25
27.21
3.02
54.0
1
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v New Zealand at Georgetown, Apr 6-11, 1985 scorecard
Last Test
India v West Indies at Chennai, Jan 11-15, 1988 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1980/81 - 1993/94
List A span
1983/84 - 1993/94
Profile
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.
