Alexander Rutherford Knight (24 January 1899 – 8 April 1986) was a New Zealand cricketer who played

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for

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between the 1918–19 and 1943–44 seasons. Alec Knight was born in

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and educated at Otago Boys' High School.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 77. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He played 51

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es, mostly as an opening batsman. He scored 56 and 152 ― his only first-class century ― for Otago against

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in 1940–41, his 50th and second-last first-class match. When Otago played the touring English team in 1929–30 he top-scored in each innings with 44 and 51. His highest score in the Plunket Shield was 83 after Otago trailed by 333 runs on the first innings against

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in 1927–28. Professionally Knight was a civil servant. He died in

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in 1986, aged 87.Alec Knight

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. Retrieved 31 May 2023. An obituary was published in the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Alec 1899 births 1986 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin People educated at Otago Boys' High School