Deighton Calvin Butler (born 14 July 1974) is a West Indies international cricket player and

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who played five One-day International matches and one Twenty20 international in 2005 and 2006. Butler has played for

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from 2000 to 2010 and was primarily a left-arm fast-medium swing bowler. He first played for West Indies in the Indian Oil Cup competition in

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in 2005, taking three wickets in three matches. He was later picked for the ODI side in

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in 2006, playing in two matches but failing to take a wicket. He is a useful lower-order batsman. He played league cricket for Linthwaite in the Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League in

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. He is now an umpire and stood in matches in the

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tournament in the West Indies.

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