60 seconds with Mark Butcher, former England batsman
Butch shares his best moments and the match v Addiscombe when he almost conned his Uncle Martin out...
Mark Butcher played for Cheam CC in the Surrey Championship and played at Sandilands many times.
He made his first class debut for Surrey in 1992 and played for England from 1997 to 2004. He played 71 Tests, scoring over 4000 test runs with 8 centuries.
Click on image above to watch his match-winning 173* in 2001 Ashes against Warne, McGrath, Gillespie and Brett Lee on a 5th day pitch. It is rated as one of the best-ever innings by an English batsman.
Butch now combines being a cricket commentator for Sky and TalkSport with being a professional musician.
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Name: Mark Butcher
Nickname: Butch
Best cricket advice you ever heard? Play the ball and not the man...
Best cricket memory:
For Surrey, my best memory was the first County Championship that my vintage won in 1999.
The best for England was being part of the team in 2003/4 which won a series in West Indies for the first time in 54 years (Editor: England won 3-0 and Butch scored the most runs in the series for England).
Most embarrassing cricketing moment:
Being carried off playing against Yorkshire in a county 2nd XI game after being hit in the box!
Who would captain your dream XI? Sir Viv Richards
Memories of playing against Addiscombe CC?
I remember taking a bag of wickets against Addiscombe at Cheam in 1989. The best part was pretending I’d got a finger on a ball struck back at me in my follow through, meaning my uncle, Martin Butcher, was given run out at the non-strikers’ end!
I let him get half way to the pavilion before I called him back...
As a musician, who would you rather support on tour, Jimi Hendrix or The Rolling Stones? The Stones. No one in their right mind would want to support Hendrix!
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Mark’s father Alan Butcher played for ACC in the 1970s his uncle, Martin Butcher, also played for ACC and has been the groundsman at Sandilands for many years.
Everyone at ACC sends their condolences to the Butcher family as this week Jackie Butcher, Martin and Alan's mum and Mark's grandmother, sadly passed away. Jackie and her husband were great supporters of Addiscombe CC for many years and our thoughts are with the whole Butcher family.
• Watch Butch and Stuart Broad discussing club cricket and his views on ‘losing draws’