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Nick Knight 
Personal information Batting style Left hand bat Bowling style Right arm medium (RM) Career statistics Competition Tests ODIs Matches 17 100 Runs scored 719 3637 Batting average 23.96 40.41 100s/50s 1/4 5/25 Top score 113 125* Balls bowled 0 0 Wickets 0 0 Bowling average N/A N/A 5 wickets in innings N/A N/A 10 wickets in match N/A n/a Best bowling N/A N/A Catches/stumpings 26/0 44/0 Source: CricInfo, August 18 2005 Nicholas Verity Knight (born Watford, Hertfordshire, England on 28 November 1969) is a former England cricketer. Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation.[1] A left-handed opening batsman and a fine fielder, Knight played in 17 Test Matches and 100 One Day Internationals before announcing his retirement from international cricket after the 2003 World Cup.
He was educated at Felsted School in Essex and Loughborough University and was an outstanding cricketer from an early age. He won the Daily Telegraph 'Young Cricketer of the Year' award in 1989 and he played cricket for Brentwood cricket club in 1989/91. In domestic cricket, he began his career with Essex in 1991 before transferring to Warwickshire four years later. He was captain of Warwickshire from 2003 to 2005, and led them to victory in the County Championship in the 2004 season. He retired from first-class cricket after the 2006 season and is now a member of the Sky Sports cricket commentary team. He finished his career with 16,172 runs at 44.18 and 40 hundreds. His highest score was an unbeaten 303.
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Career
Test Cricket
He struggled in the Test arena and made only one century, an innings of 113 vs Pakistan at Headingley in 1996. His next best score was 96 vs Zimbabwe in a drawn game at Bulawayo in 1996-97.
One Day Internationals
Debuting in 1996, he scored centuries in his second and third innings in ODI cricket, on consecutive days against a Pakistan bowling attack that included Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
Knight wasn't selected for the World Cup team in 1999 and made his World Cup debut in the 2003 tournament. He performed well in an unsuccessful campaign for England and faced the first delivery in cricket[citation needed] officially to break the 100 mph barrier, bowled by Shoaib Akhtar.
One Day International Centuries
ODI Centuries of Nick Knight Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year [1] 113 2 Pakistan Manchester, England Old Trafford 1996 [2] 125* 3 Pakistan Nottingham, England Trent Bridge 1996 [3] 122 17 West Indies Bridgetown, Barbados Kensington Oval 1998 [4] 105 70 India Delhi, India Feroz Shah Kotla 2002 [5] 111* 86 Australia Sydney, Australia Sydney Cricket Ground 2002 Notes
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Batsmen with a ODI batting average above 40 Australia Michael Bevan (53.58) • Michael Hussey (51.17) • Michael Clarke (45.35) • Dean Jones (44.61) • Matthew Hayden (44.10) • Shane Watson (43.15) • Ricky Ponting (42.63) • Callum Ferguson (41.43) • Damien Martyn (40.80) • Greg Chappell (40.18)England Jonathan Trott (51.37) • Eoin Morgan (40.45) • Nick Knight (40.41) • Kevin Pietersen (40.23) • Chris Broad (40.02)India Mahendra Singh Dhoni (51.15) • Sachin Tendulkar (45.16) • Virat Kohli (45.91) • Sourav Ganguly (41.02) • Gautam Gambhir (41.21)New Zealand Glenn Turner (47.00)Pakistan South Africa Hashim Amla (57.17) • AB de Villiers (46.68) • Jacques Kallis (45.48) • Boeta Dippenaar (44.00) • Lance Klusener (41.10) • Gary Kirsten (40.95) • Jean-Paul Duminy (40.87)West Indies Viv Richards (47.00) • Gordon Greenidge (45.03) • Ramnaresh Sarwan (43.41) • Shivnarine Chanderpaul (41.60) • Desmond Haynes (41.37) • Brian Lara (40.90)Ireland Paul Stirling (40.87)the Netherlands Ryan ten Doeschate (67.00)Minimum 20 innings. Current players are listed in Bold.England cricketers with 100 or more ODI caps Paul Collingwood 197* • Alec Stewart 170 • Darren Gough 158 • James Anderson 147* • Andrew Flintoff 138 • Andrew Strauss 127* • Graham Gooch 125 • Marcus Trescothick 123 • Allan Lamb 122 • Graeme Hick 120 • Kevin Pietersen 119* • Ian Botham 116 • David Gower 114 • Phillip DeFreitas 103 • Nick Knight 100England squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup 
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