About Basil Butcher
Basil Fitzherbert Butcher (3 September 1933 – 16 December 2019) was a Guyanese cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team. He was regarded as a reliable right-handed middle-order batsman in the star-studded West Indian batting line-up of the 1960s. Australian cricketer and media personality Richie Benaud regarded him as the most difficult of the West Indian batsmen to dismiss. == Early life == Butcher was born and raised on a sugar estate just outside the village of Port Mourant, in what was then British Guiana. Although Port Mourant was a small village, it produced a number of notable cricketers. Butcher was a neighbour of Alvin Kallicharran's family, while future Test teammates Rohan Kanhai and Joe Solomon lived nearby. He left Corentyne High School without completing his education and worked in a variety of jobs, including as a teacher, a clerk in the Public Works Department, an insurance salesman and a welfare officer, while playing cricket for Port Mourant Sports Club. Butcher's father was from Barbados and was of Indo-Trinidadian descent through his grandmother, who was East Indian. == Test career == Butcher was selected for the 1958–59 tour to India and made his Test debut along with Wes Hall in the first Test at Brabourne Stadium. He scored 28 and 64 not out, batting with Kanhai as a runner and sharing a 134-run stand with Garfield Sobers before the West Indies declared.
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