Mark Butcher Bio | Wiki
Mark Butcher is an English cricket commentator and former English Test cricketer. He played county cricket for Surrey from 1992 until his retirement in 2009. Mark was a left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler.
He played all his county cricket for Surrey, for whom he made his first-class debut in 1992. Mark made his Test match debut in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes series at Edgbaston.
He opened the batting on his debut test but didn’t produce the kind of scores that he would have liked but England managed to win that match by nine wickets albeit with a double century from Nasser Hussain.
Mark Butcher Age
Mark was born on August 28, 1972, in Croydon, United Kingdom. He is 50 years old.
Mark Butcher Height
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 11 in (Approx .1.8 m).
Mark Butcher Family
He was born and raised in Croydon, the United Kingdom by his father Alan Butcher and his father. Mark’s mother is Jamaican and his father is English. His father is Surrey’s former coach and player and his brother Gary played for Glamorgan and Surrey. Mark also has a sister named Bryony Ann. He holds English nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Mark Butcher Wife
Mark was married to Alec Stewart’s sister Judy but unfortunately, the marriage did not last. He dealt with various personal issues especially in 2000 following his break up with his wife and axe from England’s side at the end of 2000. Mark also had issues with alcohol and depression.
Mark Butcher Education
He attended Cumnor House School in Purley from the age of five to thirteen. Later, Mark moved to Trinity School in Croydon. He first played for his school’s U-11 side at the age of seven. He was also picked up by the Surrey U-11 side and also was selected for Surrey’s U-19 team. In July 1991, Mark Butcher and his father Alan Butcher became the first father-son pair ever to play against each other in first-class cricket.
Mark Butcher Surrey
Mark played all his county cricket for Surrey, for whom he made his first-class debut in 1992 until his retirement in 2009. He was a left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. He made his Test match debut in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes series at Edgbaston.
Mark captained England once, in a draw with New Zealand in 1999 when Nasser Hussain was injured. He never appeared in a One Day International (ODI). In his later career, Mark struggled to recover properly from numerous injury setbacks. Although he retained the official captaincy of Surrey his appearances for the team became sporadic. In August 2009, he announced his retirement from all first-class cricket after a troubling knee injury.