Barry Knight (cricketer)

Barry Knight (born Barry Rolfe Knight, 18 February 1938, Chesterfield, Derbyshire) 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... was an elegant middle-order batsman and a bowler with a sharp turn of speed who never appeared to run out of energy".

Life and career

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. 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. In 1959, he missed the honour by a mere five runs. Together with R.A.G. Luckin he jointly holds the record stand for the Essex's sixth wicket, 206, scored against Middlesex at Brentwood in 1962. He also made his highest first-class score, 165, in this match. They share this record with J.W.T. Douglas and J. O'Connor,...
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