Basil Butcher was a constant in the West Indies middle-order as the team rose to No.1 in the world from 1963-1969.
In the peaceful confinements of his home in the mining town of Linden with wife Pam, Basil Fitzherbert Butcher, currently unbeaten in life at 78 not out, articulated his views on cricket in a pleasant but very authoritative and resolute manner.
For all those who saw him bat, they would have seen
