Barry Knight

Barry Rolfe Knight (18 February 1938 – 10 November 2025) was an 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". He was a fast-bowling all-rounder who completed the cricketer's double (1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season) four times, including the fastest accomplishment of the feat in modern times (two-and-a-half months). He won the World Single Wicket Title at Lord's in 1964.

Knight made his county cricket debut with Essex in May 1955, leaving that club at the end of the 1966 season for financial reasons to join Leicestershire.

He was the first professional coach in Australia, starting in 1970 at an indoor facility in Sydney called Knights Inn and also was a very early user of video to record students batting and bowling.