From Barbados to England: The Roland Butcher Story
Roland Butcher did not want to leave Barbados for England. A chance encounter in a Stevenage park eventually put him on the path to Middlesex and history as the first Black man to represent England in Test cricket.
Roland joins Sanjay Murthy to discuss growing up in rural Barbados, arriving in England at 13, playing during county cricket’s golden era and making his Test debut against the West Indies at Kensington Oval.
He also reveals how the difficulties faced by John Barnes and Paul Ince changed his football coaching ambitions, before explaining how his work at the University of the West…
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