Barry Knight (cricketer)
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| Full name | Barry Rolfe Knight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 February 1938 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 1 December 1961 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 7 August 1969 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Barry Rolfe Knight (born 18 February 1938)[1] is a former English cricketer, who played in twenty nine Tests for England from 1961 to 1969.
Cricket correspondent Colin Bateman remarked, "a flamboyant cricketer... [Knight] was an elegant middle-order batsman and a bowler with a sharp turn of speed who never appeared to run out of energy".[1]
Life and career
Born 18 February 1938, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Knight was a fast bowling all-rounder, doing the cricketer's double (1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season) four times, including the fastest in modern times, (two and a half months). He won the World Single Wicket Title at Lord's in 1964.
Knight made his county cricket debut with Essex in May 1955, leaving them at the end of the 1966 season for financial reasons to join Leicestershire.[1] He emigrated to Australia at the end of the 1969 season, ending his career whilst still an England cricketer. He took 100 wickets in four seasons, and scored a thousand runs five times. He accomplished the double in each season from 1962 to 1965.[1] In 1959, he missed the honour by a mere five runs. He made his highest first-class score, 165, against Middlesex at Brentwood in 1962.
His longest run at Test match level was the first six Tests he played in
He was the first professional coach in Australia, starting in 1970 at an indoor facility in Sydney called Knights Inn and also was a very early user of video to record students batting and bowling.
References
- ^ ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
- ^ "Highest partnerships by wicket". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
