Heather Knight (cricketer)

Heather Knight
OBE
Knight during the Women's Ashes Test, 2017
Personal information
Full name Heather Clare Knight
Born (1990-12-26) 26 December 1990
Rochdale, England
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm off break
Role Batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 149) 22 January 2011 v Australia
Last Test 9 November 2017 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 115) 1 March 2010 v India
Last ODI 13 July 2018 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 5
T20I debut 22 November 2010 v Sri Lanka
Last T20I 1 July 2018 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2008–2009 Devon
2010–present Berkshire
2014–2016 Tasmanian Roar
2015–present Hobart Hurricanes
2016–present Western Storm
Career statistics
Competition WTests WODI WT20I
Matches 5 78 36
Runs scored 217 2,067 363
Batting average 21.70 35.63 13.96
100s/50s 1/0 1/14 0/0
Top score 157 106 30
Balls bowled 131 1,331 291
Wickets 2 43 12
Bowling average 29.50 22.25 21.58
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a
Best bowling 1/7 5/26 3/10
Catches/stumpings 6/– 28/– 11/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 July 2018

Heather Clare Knight OBE (born 26 December 1990) is an English cricketer who is captain of the England women's cricket team. She is a right-handed batsman and right arm off break bowler.

Early life

Knight was born on 26 December 1990 in Rochdale and was educated at Plymstock School, a state secondary school in Plymouth, Devon.[1] She was offered a place at the University of Cambridge to study natural sciences, but turned it down so that she would have the time play cricket.[2] She went on to study Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

On 5 June 2016, Knight was appointed captain of the England women's cricket team after Charlotte Edwards stood down.[7]

She also became the first female cricketer to score a fifty and to take a five wicket haul in an ODI innings[8]

2017 Women's Cricket World Cup

Heather Knight led the England team in her first Women's Cricket World Cup as captain, and they won the tournament despite losing to India in the opening match. In the second group match against Pakistan she, along with Natalie Sciver, went on to put on a record 3rd-wicket partnership in the history of Women's Cricket World Cup(213)[9] as England managed to defeat Pakistan convincingly by 107 runs[10] In the final at Lord's Knight led England to a 9 run victory over India.[11][12][13]

Following the team's success, she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2018 New Year Honours list.[14]

In April 2018 she was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for her part in the 2017 World Cup victory.[15]

2018 World Twenty20

In October 2018, she was named as the captain of England's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "Knight is a first among equals at Plymstock". This is Cornwall. Northcliffe Media. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Westbury, Isabelle (27 July 2015). "Women's Cricket: Turning down Cambridge degree course was right for Heather Knight". The Independent. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Performance: Sports Bursar selected for India training camp". News Archive – Sport. Cardiff University. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "England Women Tour of India 2009/10". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  5. ↑ "2nd T20I: Sri Lanka Women v England Women at Colombo (NCC), Nov 22, 2010 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  6. ↑ "England women earn 18 new central contracts". BBC. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Heather Knight appointed England women's captain". Sky Sports. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | All-round records | A fifty and five wickets in an innings | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  9. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Women's World Cup | Highest partnerships by wicket | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  10. ↑ "5th Match: England Women v Pakistan Women at Leicester, Jun 27, 2017 | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  11. ↑ Live commentary: Final, ICC Women's World Cup at London, Jul 23, ESPNcricinfo, 23 July 2017.
  12. ↑ World Cup Final, BBC Sport, 23 July 2017.
  13. ↑ England v India: Women's World Cup final – live!, The Guardian, 23 July 2017.
  14. ↑ "Women's cricket rewarded in wake of World Cup win". Daily Telegraph. 30 December 2017. p. 6.
  15. ↑ Wisden names three female World Cup winners in its five cricketers of 2017 The Guardian, 11 Apr 2018
  16. ↑ "England name Women's World T20 squad". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  17. ↑ "Three uncapped players in England's Women's World T20 squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
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