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Full name Nicholas Verity Knight
Born November 28, 1969, Watford, Hertfordshire
Current age 38 years 171 days
Major teams England,Essex,Warwickshire
Nickname Stitch, Fungus
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Commentator
Height
6 ft 1 in
Education Felsted School; Loughborough University
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
17
30
0
719
113
23.96
1661
43.28
1
4
74
2
26
0
ODIs
100
100
10
3637
125*
40.41
5085
71.52
5
25
327
21
44
0
First-class
240
409
43
16172
303*
44.18
40
77
292
0
List A
414
394
45
13478
151
38.61
30
68
174
0
Twenty20
23
22
2
584
89
29.20
452
129.20
0
5
72
11
9
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
17
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
100
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
240
249
271
1
1/61
271.00
6.53
249.0
0
0
List A
414
90
89
2
1/14
1/14
44.50
5.93
45.0
0
0
0
Twenty20
23
1
5
4
0
-
-
-
4.80
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Manchester, Jul 27-30, 1995 scorecard
Last Test
England v Pakistan at Manchester, May 31-Jun 4, 2001 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Pakistan at Manchester, Aug 29, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v England at Port Elizabeth, Mar 2, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1991
Last First-class
Warwickshire v Kent at Birmingham, Sep 13-16, 2006 scorecard
List A debut
1990
Last List A
Nottinghamshire v Warwickshire at Nottingham, Sep 11, 2006 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Somerset v Warwickshire at Taunton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Worcestershire v Warwickshire at Worcester, Jul 11, 2006 scorecard
Profile
There are two Nick Knights. One is a flamboyant left-handed opener for England's one-day side, who exploits fielding restrictions in the first 15 overs by slapping the ball over mid-on and carving it through point. The other is a tentative Test player, fallible outside off stump and to the straight, full-length delivery when he plays round his front pad and falls away to the off side. His two best Test innings (113 v Pakistan, Headingley in 1996, and 96 in the flippin'-murdered-'em draw v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 1996-97) seemed to set him up, but he was dropped after a poor series in New Zealand that winter, and has won only five more caps, four of them in 2000. Knight was harshly left out of the World Cup team in 1999, but seemed set to make amends in 2003 after several impressive displays in the VB Series, which led seasoned Australian observers to wonder why on earth he wasn't a Test regular. But after England's failure in the World Cup, he called time on his international one-day career - but not Tests - to enable him to concentrate on leading Warwickshire. Knight, who began his career at Essex but moved to Warwickshire in 1995, is a world-class fielder - whether at third slip, in the gully, at short midwicket or as a cover sweeper - and an outgoing, hard-to-suppress team man. He announced his intention to retire at the end of 2006, and soon after was unveilled as the latest member of Sky Sports' commentary team.
Lawrence Booth April 2007
