Heather Knight (cricketer)
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| Full name | Heather Clare Knight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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26 December 1990 Rochdale, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Trev, Manatee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test | 22 January 2011 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut | 1 March 2010 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 23 October 2011 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Heather Clare Knight is an English cricketer who plays international cricket for the England women's cricket team. She was born on 26 December 1990 in Rochdale and is a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler. A prolific batsman at county level for her native Devon, she 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).
She 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.[1] 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.[2] She made her test debut in the one-off Ashes test at Sydney's Bankstown Oval in January 2011.
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.
She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.[3]
Education
Knight attended Plymstock School[4] before studying Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University.[5]
References
- ↑ "England Women Tour of India 2009/10". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
- ↑ "2nd T20I: Sri Lanka Women v England Women at Colombo (NCC), Nov 22, 2010 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
- ↑ "England women earn 18 new central contracts". BBC. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- ↑ "Knight is a first among equals at Plymstock". This is Cornwall. Northcliffe Media. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- ↑ "Performance: Sports Bursar selected for India training camp". News Archive - Sport. Cardiff University. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2011.