Barry Knight (cricketer)

Barry Knight
Personal information
Full name
Barry Rolfe Knight
Born (1938-02-18) 18 February 1938
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut1 December 1961 v India
Last Test7 August 1969 v New Zealand
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 29 379
Runs scored 812 13,336
Batting average 26.19 25.69
100s/50s 2/0 12/66
Top score 127 165
Balls bowled 5,377 57,813
Wickets 70 1089
Bowling average 31.75 24.06
5 wickets in innings 0 45
10 wickets in match 0 8
Best bowling 4/38 8/69
Catches/stumpings 14/– 263/–
Source: CricInfo, 7 November 2022

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