Iain Peter Butchart was a Zimbabwean

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 cricket

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er who played one Test

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 at the age of 35, in addition to 20 One Day Internationals spread over twelve years. He was an all-round

All-rounder

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 player, a right-handed batsman and an often used medium pacer

Fast bowling

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 (he bowled more than 13 overs a match in his first class career). He also played nine matches for Zimbabwe in the ICC Trophy

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, making 57 runs without being dismissed and taking 14 wickets, including four for 33 against Netherlands in the 1986

1986 ICC Trophy

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 final, which Zimbabwe won by 25 runs.

In One Day Internationals - 17 of which were at the Cricket World Cup

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 - his best batting performance was 54 off 70 balls against New Zealand

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 at the 1987 World Cup

1987 Cricket World Cup

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, which took Zimbabwe from 104 for 7 to 221 for 8 chasing a total of 243 to win. However, with four to get and three balls remaining, Butchart was run out

Run out

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, leaving New Zealand as three-run winner. His best bowling figures were three for 57 - Aamer Sohail

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 for 114, Inzamam-ul-Haq

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 for 14 and Javed Miandad

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 for 89 - in a 53-run loss to Pakistan

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 at the 1992 World Cup

1992 Cricket World Cup

-New Zealand:-Round Robin Stage:Co-hosts New Zealand proved the surprise packet of the tournament, winning their first seven games to finish on top of the table after the round robin. The other hosts, Australia, were one of the pre-tournament favourites but lost their first two matches. They...

. More recently he was the Zimbabwe U19 cricket coach at the U19 World Cup held in South Africa.