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West Indies' legendary cricketer Basil Butcher dies aged 86

West Indies' legendary cricketer Basil Butcher dies aged 86
Guru Sai

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Posted - 2019-12-18T11:08:00+06:00

Updated - 2019-12-18T11:08:00+06:00

In heart-breaking news to cricket fraternity, former
legendary cricketer Basil Butcher drew his last breath at the age of 86. Cricket West Indies was the first to confirm the news officially on Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_135665" align="aligncenter" width="960"]
Basil Butcher in action.[/caption] The stylish former West Indies batsman was born in Guyana. He used to make waves in the gentleman's game. His statistics serve as a testament to the fact. Basil Butcher had a batting average of 43 from 44 tests for West Indies in the 1950s and 60s. He scored as many as seven centuries for the national team and gained fame and reputation for his fluent batting at that time. His memorable innings came during the crunch situations of the game when he single-handedly took the bowling attack cleaners. His sensational knock came against a Fred Trueman-led
attack when he scored 133 at the iconic Lord’s in the year 1963. Butcher registered his highest test score of an unbeaten 209, which is his personal best coming against England three years later in Nottingham. Butcher, whose father plied his trade a sugar estate developed a penchant for cricket from a young age. “We had nothing else to do,” he earlier told in an interview. “My back fence eventually became the fence for the community centre ground. All I had to do was jump that back fence and I was in the community centre-ground at the sugar estate.”
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