Butch White
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| Full name | David William White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14 December 1935 Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England, UK |
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| Died | 1 August 2008 (aged 72) Pulborough, West Sussex, England, UK |
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David William "Butch" White (14 December 1935 – 1 August 2008) was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests from 1961 to 1962. He played county cricket for Hampshire from 1957 to 1971, with a final season at Glamorgan in 1972.
White was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. In his youth, he played club cricket for Aston Unity in the Birmingham League and for Warwickshire Second XI. During National Service as a driving instructor in the Army, he made his first-class debut for Hampshire, playing against Cambridge University in 1957, and joining the county staff in 1958. The retirement of Vic Cannings in 1959 gave him the opportunity to open the bowling for Hampshire alongside Derek Shackleton.
A pace bowler, White took 1,097 first-class wickets in 15 seasons with Hampshire. He helped Hampshire win the County Championship title for the first time in 1961 under captain Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, with White and Shackleton each taking over 100 wickets. At the time, White was considered one of the best fast bowlers in England. Many Hampshire fans consider him the fastest English bowler to have played for the county.
He was a muscular bowler, running in energetically from 25 yards, with a convulsive delivery stride. He troubled batsmen for pace, and combined a natural in-swinger with a ball that held its line outside off stump. He was no-balled for throwing by Paul Gibb twice in 1960, but Gibb later recognised that he had been mistaken. His batting was limited, and tended to the agricultural. In 1960, he scored 28 off an over bowled by Oxford University off-spinner Dan Piachaud: after a dot ball, he hit four sixes and then a four.
He took over 100 wickets in a season on four occasions, claiming 6–10 at Middlesbrough in 1965 against a Yorkshire side (including Geoff Boycott, Brian Close, Ray Illingworth and Fred Trueman) that was bowled out for its lowest ever first-class total of 23. His best figures were 9–44 against Leicestershire at Portsmouth in 1966.
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