Charles Stuart Knightley (born 3 February 1972) is a former English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. Knightley was a left-handed batsman who fielded occasionally as a wicket-keeper. He was born in

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, Gloucestershire. Knightley made his debut for

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in the 1996

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against Shropshire. Knightley played Minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire from 1996 to 2010, which included 75 Minor Counties Championship matches and 21 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. He made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

debut against Lancashire in the

1996 NatWest Trophy The 1996 NatWest Trophy was the 16th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 25 June and 7 September 1996. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Essex Co ...

. He played 5 further List A matches, the last coming against Herefordshire in the 1st round of the

2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 28 August 2003 and 28 August 2004. The competition was won by Gloucestershire Gladiators who beat the Worcestershire Royals by 8 wickets at Lord's. ...

which was held in 2003. In his 6 List A matches he scored 109 runs at a batting average of 27.25, with a high score of 61 *. His only half century came against Lancashire in the 1996 NatWest Trophy. He has previously played for the Gloucestershire Second XI in 1995.

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