CRICKET WICKETPLAYER CAREER
Mark Butcher
International career statistics, records and scorecard analysis
MB
71Internationals
4,288Career runs
8Centuries
15Wickets
Career records by format
Test
Official international careerBatting
- Matches
- 71
- Innings
- 131
- Runs
- 4,288
- Average
- 34.58
- Strike rate
- 42.85
- Highest score
- 173*
- Not outs
- 7
- 100s
- 8
- 50s
- 23
- Ducks
- 10
- 4s
- 559
- 6s
- 3
- Balls faced
- 10,005
Bowling
- Matches
- 71
- Innings
- 30
- Balls
- 901
- Maidens
- 27
- Runs conceded
- 541
- Wickets
- 15
- Average
- 36.06
- Economy
- 3.60
- Strike rate
- 60.06
- Best innings
- 4/42
- Best match
- 5/68
- 4 wickets
- 2
- 5 wickets
- 0
- 10 wickets
- 0
Fielding
- Matches
- 71
- Innings
- 122
- Catches
- 61
- Stumpings
- 0
- Dismissals
- 61
- Keeper catches
- 0
- Fielder catches
- 61
- Dismissals / inns
- 0.500
- Best innings
- 3 (3ct 0st)
Career records checked: 2026-09-07. — means not recorded; N/A means the statistic does not apply. Career totals are independent of the scorecard archive.
Explore this player’s available match data
71 match appearances in available scorecards. Filters below apply to this archive only.
Recent available appearances
| Date | Match | Format | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-12-26 | England v South Africa | Test | Match drawn |
| 2004-12-17 | England v South Africa | Test | England won by 7 wickets |
| 2004-06-10 | England v New Zealand | Test | England won by 4 wickets |
| 2004-06-03 | England v New Zealand | Test | England won by 9 wickets |
| 2004-05-20 | England v New Zealand | Test | England won by 7 wickets |
| 2004-04-10 | West Indies v England | Test | Match drawn |
| 2004-04-01 | England v West Indies | Test | England won by 8 wickets |
| 2004-03-19 | England v West Indies | Test | England won by 7 wickets |
| 2004-03-11 | England v West Indies | Test | England won by 10 wickets |
| 2003-12-18 | England v Sri Lanka | Test | Sri Lanka won by an innings and 215 runs |
| 2003-12-10 | England v Sri Lanka | Test | Match drawn |
| 2003-12-02 | England v Sri Lanka | Test | Match drawn |
THE SHAPE OF A CAREER
Available scorecardsPerformance by year
Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.
Test
Exact yearly figures · 8 seasons
| Year | Mat | Bat inns | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | BF | Bowl inns | Wkts | Bowl avg | Econ | Bowl SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 9 | 17 | 498 | 79 | 35.57 | 40.19 | 0 | 6 | 62 | 0 | 1,239 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2003 | 13 | 23 | 979 | 137 | 44.50 | 46.73 | 3 | 5 | 148 | 2 | 2,095 | 6 | 5 | 25.80 | 4.18 | 37.00 |
| 2002 | 14 | 24 | 887 | 123 | 36.95 | 44.86 | 2 | 5 | 107 | 0 | 1,977 | 7 | 2 | 80.50 | 3.74 | 129.00 |
| 2001 | 8 | 16 | 671 | 173 | 47.92 | 51.18 | 1 | 3 | 86 | 1 | 1,311 | 5 | 5 | 16.40 | 3.90 | 25.20 |
| 2000 | 2 | 3 | 80 | 40 | 26.66 | 30.65 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 261 | 1 | 0 | N/A | 3.00 | N/A |
| 1999 | 7 | 13 | 235 | 48 | 18.07 | 33.14 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 709 | 4 | 3 | 25.66 | 3.78 | 40.66 |
| 1998 | 13 | 25 | 684 | 116 | 28.50 | 38.23 | 2 | 2 | 80 | 0 | 1,789 | 6 | 0 | N/A | 2.30 | N/A |
| 1997 | 5 | 10 | 254 | 87 | 25.40 | 40.70 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 624 | 1 | 0 | N/A | 7.00 | N/A |
Career timeline
Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.
- First available scorecard
Test v Australia · Birmingham
- First century in this archive · 116 runs
Test v South Africa · Leeds
- Best recorded bowling · 4/42
Test v Australia · Birmingham
- Highest recorded innings · 173* runs
Test v Australia · Leeds
- Latest available scorecard
Test v South Africa · Durban