Heather Knight (cricketer)

Heather Knight

Personal information
Full name	Heather Clare Knight
Born	(1990-12-26) 26 December 1990 Rochdale, England
Nickname	Trev, Manatee
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Role	Batter
International information
National side	England
Test debut	22 January 2011 v Australia women
Last Test	11 August 2015 v Australia women
ODI debut (cap 115)	1 March 2010 v India women
Last ODI	27 July 2015 v Australia women
ODI shirt no.	5
T20I debut (cap 29)	22 November 2010 v Sri Lanka women
Last T20I	31 August 2015 v Australia women
Career statistics
Competition WTests WODI T20I Matches 5 52 26 Runs scored 217 1100 229 Batting average 21.70 28.20 14.31 100s/50s 1/0 0/7 0/0 Top score 157 79 30 Balls bowled 131 558 153 Wickets 2 18 7 Bowling average 29.50 22.66 16.28 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a Best bowling 1/7 4/47 3/10 Catches/stumpings 6/– 13/– 8/–
Source: Cricinfo, 2 September 2015

Heather Clare Knight (born 26 December 1990) is an English cricketer who plays international cricket for the England women's cricket team. She is a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler.

Early life

Knight was born on 26 December 1990 in Rochdale. She was educated at Plymstock School, a state secondary school in Plymouth, Devon. She was offered a place at the University of Cambridge to study natural sciences but turned it down so she would have the time play cricket. She went on to study Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University.

Cricketing career

A prolific batsman at county level for her native Devon, Knight has played for the Diamonds, the Rubies and England Academy Women in addition to the England Women's team. She topped the county run scoring aggregates in both 2008 (390 runs) and 2009 (622).

Knight plays club cricket for Plymstock Cricket Club in the Devon Cricket League where she opens the batting for the first team. Heather started attending colts training sessions at just 8 years old and progressed through the youth system at Plymstock.

England

Knight was called into the England squad on their tour of India in 2010 as a replacement for the injured Sarah Taylor and played in the 5th One Day International on 1 March in Mumbai, opening the batting and scoring 49 on her international debut. She toured Sri Lanka with the England team in 2010, making her Twenty20 debut in the 2nd match of the series on 22 November in Colombo. She made her test debut in the one-off Ashes test at Sydney's Bankstown Oval in January 2011.

She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.

Cricket Equipment

Knight was involved in the creation of a UK Cricket Range exclusively for women, the Heather Knight Collection. Partnering with SM Pintu and Cricket Deal Direct, working towards their shared interest in the development of Women's cricket across the UK.

The equipment range is specially designed for women, and has already sponsored a number of young developing cricketers, including Cath Dalton and Sophia Dunkley.

External links

• Player profile: Heather Knight from ESPNcricinfo