Heather Clare Knight is an international cricket

International Cricket

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er http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/current/player/358259.html. She was born on 26 December 1990 in Rochdale

Rochdale

Rochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, north-northwest of Oldham, and north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan...

 and is a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler. A prolific batsman at county level for her native Devon

Devon County Cricket Club

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, she has played for the Diamonds, the Rubies, England Academy Women and the England Women's team. She topped the county run scoring aggregates in both 2008 (390 runs) and 2009 (622).

She was called into the England squad on their tour of India in 2010 as a replacement for the injured Sarah Taylor

Sarah Taylor (cricketer)

Sarah Jane Taylor is an English cricketer. She is a wicketkeeper-batsman known for her free flowing stroke play, opening the batting in one day matches and batting in the middle order in Tests. She was a member of the England team which retained the Ashes in Australia in 2008. She plays county...

 and played in the 5th One Day International on 1 March in Bombay, opening the batting and scoring 49 on her international debut http://www.cricinfo.com/india/engine/match/439016.html. She toured Sri Lanka with the England team in 2010, making her Twenty/20 debut in the 2nd match of the series on November 22 in Colombo

Colombo

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. She made her test debut in the one off Ashes test at Bankstown Oval in January 2011.

Knight plays club cricket

Club cricket

Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening. There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are always observed...

 for Plymstock Cricket Club in the Devon Cricket League

Devon Cricket League

The Devon Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Devon, England, and since 2000 has been a designated ECB Premier League.-Winners:...

 where she opens the batting for the first team. Heather started attending colts training sessions at just 8 years old and progressed through the youth system at Plymstock.

Education

Knight attended Plymstock School

Plymstock School

Plymstock School is a state comprehensive secondary school in Plymstock, a popular suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England. It was the first West Devon comprehensive school and is now a Specialist Sports College. it has some 1,600 students, of whom 240 are in the sixth form...

 before studying Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University

Cardiff University

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