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Full name Barry Rolfe Knight
Born February 18, 1938, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Current age 70 years 158 days
Major teams England,Essex,Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Other Coach
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
29
38
7
812
127
26.19
2
0
94
3
14
0
First-class
379
602
83
13336
165
25.69
12
66
263
0
List A
18
18
2
377
52
23.56
0
1
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
29
54
5377
2223
70
4/38
6/110
31.75
2.48
76.8
4
0
0
First-class
379
57813
26205
1089
8/69
24.06
2.71
53.0
45
8
List A
18
1092
576
31
5/41
5/41
18.58
3.16
35.2
0
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v England at Kanpur, Dec 1-6, 1961 scorecard
Last Test
England v New Zealand at Nottingham, Aug 7-12, 1969 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1955 - 1969
List A span
1963 - 1969
Profile
An enthusiastic allrounder, Barry Knight was a good enough batsman to score two Test centuries and complete the domestic double four times for Essex. But his bowling, which featured an unusual wristy flourish just before delivery, wasn't quite fast enough to earn him the new ball for England ahead of the likes of John Snow and Ken Higgs. Knight had a complicated personal life. After falling out with Essex he spent three years with Leicestershire, but left them in 1969, the year of his last Test appearance. He had been declared bankrupt after some business troubles, and said he had contemplated suicide. Knight bravely upped sticks to Australia, and forged a successful coaching career in Sydney, where he ran a successful indoor school, and was a mentor to the young Allan Border. Steven Lynch
