Owen Butler

{{Short description|Irish cricketer (born 1975)}}

{{for|the Australian rugby union player|Owen Butler (rugby union)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Owen Butler

| image =

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast

| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = –

| bat avg1 = –

| 100s/50s1 = –

| top score1 = –

| deliveries1 = 54

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1= 0/–

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 6

| runs2 = 12

| bat avg2 = 6.00

| 100s/50s2 = 0/0

| top score2 = 8

| deliveries2 = 348

| wickets2 = 8

| bowl avg2 = 34.00

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 3/53

| catches/stumpings2= 1/–

| source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/10/10607/10607.html CricketArchive

| date = 30 December

| year = 2021

}}

Owen Fintan Xavier Butler (born 15 September 1975)[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/10/10607/10607.html Cricket Archive profile] is an Irish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.

He made his debut for Ireland in June 1994 against the MCC.[http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire52.htm CricketEurope Stats Zone profile] His List A debut came the following year in a Benson and Hedges Cup match against Surrey.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/10/10607/List_A_Matches.html Owen Butler's List A matches at Cricket Archive] His only first-class match was against Scotland in August 1996.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/10/10607/First-Class_Matches.html Owen Butler's First-class matches at Cricket Archive]

He was then absent from the Irish team for almost four years before making a comeback in the ICC Emerging Nations tournament in Zimbabwe in April 2000. Later that year, he played in the European Championship,{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketeurope.net/ECC/DATABASE/2000/TOURNAMENTS/EUROCHAMS/TEAMS/ireland.shtml |title=Ireland's squad in the 2000 European Championship |access-date=2007-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092702/http://www.cricketeurope.net/ECC/DATABASE/2000/TOURNAMENTS/EUROCHAMS/TEAMS/ireland.shtml |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }} the match against Italy being his twelfth and, to date, last match for Ireland.