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Full name Luke Rex Butterworth
Born October 28, 1983, Hobart, Tasmania
Current age 24 years 344 days
Major teams Tasmania
Nickname Buttsy
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
1.86 m
Relations Brother - N Butterworth
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
14
23
1
678
116
30.81
1347
50.33
2
3
80
4
11
0
List A
32
27
5
366
44
16.63
491
74.54
0
0
6
0
Twenty20
3
3
1
41
36
20.50
39
105.12
0
0
5
0
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
14
23
2071
1125
38
4/18
6/80
29.60
3.25
54.5
4
0
0
List A
32
1333
1134
33
3/32
3/32
34.36
5.10
40.3
0
0
0
Twenty20
3
3
48
72
1
1/23
1/23
72.00
9.00
48.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
New South Wales v Tasmania at Sydney, Jan 27-29, 2007 scorecard
Last First-class
Western Australia v Tasmania at Perth, Mar 7-10, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2003/04
Last List A
Tasmania v Sri Lankans at Hobart, Feb 2, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Queensland v Tasmania at Toowoomba, Jan 1, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Queensland v Tasmania at Brisbane, Jan 10, 2008 scorecard
Profile
A highly-talented allrounder, Luke Butterworth sensationally combined his batting and bowling skills to win the Man-of-the-Match award in Tasmania's Pura Cup final victory in 2006-07. Although it was only his fifth game, he displayed supreme composure with 66 in the first innings and 106 in the second. Butterworth, who had not previously scored a first-class half-century, also claimed 4 for 33 in New South Wales' first innings with his sharp medium-pace seamers. He came into the season still awaiting his Pura Cup debut but Ricky Ponting was so impressed when he led Butterworth in a state one-day game in November 2006 that he encouraged the Tigers to give the young allrounder more responsibilities. Until the final, he looked most dangerous as a bowler and he had important four-wicket hauls in wins against South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. He finished his excellent debut Pura Cup season with 23 wickets at 19.56 and 276 runs at 34.5 and the year was capped off with an Australia A call-up for the 2007 trip to Pakistan.
The following season was a year of consolidation rather than great heroics. He missed only one Pura Cup match and compiled 402 runs at 28.71, including another century against New South Wales. Although he had been a familiar face in Tasmania's limited-overs team for five years, Butterworth was used only three times in the FR Cup in 2007-08. A former Australia Under-19 representative, Butterworth will be aiming to make Tasmania's No. 6 batting spot his own in 2007-08.
Cricinfo staff September 2008
