Colin Richard Knight (born 24 May 1956) 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. Knight was a right-handed
batsman who fielded as a
wicket-keeper. He was born in
Barrow-in-Furness,
Lancashire.
Knight made his debut for
Cumberland
Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...
in the 1987
Minor Counties Championship
The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...
against
Durham. Knight played
Minor counties cricket for Cumberland from 1987 to 1992, including 19 Minor Counties Championship matches and 6
MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1992, he played his only
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 ...
match against
Essex in the
NatWest Trophy. In this match he scored 21 runs before being dismissed by
Don Topley.
References
External links
Colin Knightat
ESPNcricinfoColin Knightat CricketArchive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Colin
1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Barrow-in-Furness
Cricketers from Cumbria
English cricketers
Cumberland cricketers
Wicket-keepers