Clyde Godfrey Butts (born 8 July 1957) is a former

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cricketer who batted right-handed and bowled

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s. Later, he became a team selector. In a career spanning 14 seasons, he played 87 first class games, including seven

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for the West Indies between 1985 and 1988. The West Indies rarely selected spin bowlers when Butts was active – choosing instead to back their four

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– though he did play five matches on the

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, where teams traditionally select spin bowlers as the pitches are believed to suit them more. It was on the subcontinent that Butts got his best bowling figures, with four for 73 against

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in 1986–87, including the Pakistani captain and all-rounder

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. Butts finished with six for 95 in the match, but couldn't prevent a drawn match and a drawn series. In his next tour of the subcontinent, to India the following season, Butts played three Tests and took two wickets, and that turned out to be his last series. In domestic cricket, Butts played 61 first class games for

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, and won three titles in first class cricket with the team. "On the rest day of his Test debut in April 1985, uttsgot married, though arguably, for an offspinner in that fearsome West Indies attack, most days were a rest day."

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