Knight played club cricket for Plymstock Cricket Club in the Devon Cricket League.[4] She started attending colts training sessions at 8 years old and progressed through the club's youth system.
Knight is a prolific batter at county level,initially for her home county of Devon and currently for Berkshire. She topped the county run scoring aggregates in both 2008 (390 runs) and 2009 (622). She also played for the Diamonds,Sapphires and Emeralds in the Super Fours.
Knight was called into the England squad on their tour of India in 2010 as a replacement for the injured Sarah Taylor and played in the 5th One Day International on 1 March in Mumbai,opening the batting and scoring 49 on her international debut.[15] She toured Sri Lanka with the England team in 2010,making her Twenty20 debut in the 2nd match of the series on 22 November in Colombo.[16] She made her test debut in the one-off Ashes test at Sydney's Bankstown Oval in January 2011.
She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players,which were announced in April 2014.[17]
She also became the first female cricketer to score a fifty and to take a five wicket haul in an ODI innings.[19]
2017 Women's Cricket World Cup
Heather Knight led the England team in her first Women's Cricket World Cup as captain,and they won the tournament despite losing to India in the opening match. In the second group match against Pakistan she,along with Natalie Sciver,went on to put on a record 3rd-wicket partnership in the history of Women's Cricket World Cup (213)[20] as England managed to defeat Pakistan convincingly by 107 runs.[21] In the final at Lord's Knight led England to a 9 run victory over India.[22][23][24]
Following the team's success,she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2018 New Year Honours list.[25]
On 18 June 2020,Knight was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.[38][39] In June 2021,Knight was named as the captain of England's Test squad for their one-off match against India.[40][41] On 3 July 2021,in the home series against India,Knight scored her 3,000th run and took her 50th wicket in WODI cricket.[42][43] In December 2021,Knight was named as the captain of England's squad for their tour to Australia to contest the Women's Ashes.[44] In February 2022,she was named as the captain of England's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[45] In July 2022,she was named as the captain of England's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham,England.[46]
Knight was the first woman,and also the first England player,to score an international century in all three formats of the game.[52][53] Her international centuries are:
Knight's nickname is "Trev". In 2015,she explained to sports journalist Clare Balding that "When I was about 13 and introduced myself at cricket camp,they thought I said Trevor rather than Heather!"[62]
2012 Blackface Incident
In September 2024,Knight admitted a disciplinary charge relating to wearing Blackface to a 2012 end of season fancy dress party for a club in Kent whilst she was playing for Berkshire and England. She was reprimanded by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) and fined £1,000,which was suspended for two years. In its adjudication the CDC said it accepted there was no racist or discriminatory intent,but it reiterated that the photograph which led to the charge was "plainly prejudicial to the interests of cricket" and "brought the game and Ms Knight into disrepute."[63][64][65]
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