Heather Night
Heather Knight, who has been holding the responsibility of captaining the England women’s team for the last 9 years, resigned from her post on 22 March. This decision of Heather Knight came exactly a day after the team’s head coach John Lewis left his post. Earlier this year, the England women’s team visited Australia to play the Ashes series where the team saw a very poor performance. At the same time, earlier in the women’s T20 World Cup, the team could not manage to travel ahead of group stage. After the ongoing review of this poor performance of the team, Heather Knight decided to step down the captaincy, while she will still be available for selection as a player.
England team won the World Cup under the captaincy of Heather Knight
In 2016, Heather Knight was handed over the captaincy of the England women’s team at the place of Charlotte Edwards, exactly a year later, England won the ODI Cup title, in which they defeated India in the final match. After this, the team managed to make a place in the finals of the ICC tournaments held in 2018 and 2022. Now the England Cricket Board has decided to move beyond Heather Knight, in which who will handle the captaincy of the team in their place will be announced soon. In the statement of Heather Knight released by ECB, he said that captaincy for my country is the most important moment of my life and I will always remember it. Winning the World Cup was one of the most memorable moments for me. I want to thank my fans and family. Now I will try to pay full attention to my batting and I am very keen to play under the leadership of the new captain.
This has been so far, Heather Knight’s International Career
Talking about Heather Knight’s career so far in international cricket, he has scored 970 runs while batting in 25 innings in 14 Test matches, while he has scored 970 runs at an average of 42.17, while 2 centuries and 5 half -century innings have also been seen with his bat. In ODIs, Heather Knight has scored a total of 4037 runs at an average of 35.10, playing in 149 matches, in which she has managed to score 2 centuries and 26 half -centuries. In T20 International, Heather Knight has scored 2222 runs at an average of 25.83 with 129 matches, with a century and 7 half -century innings. Heather Knight has also been seen amazing in bowling, where he has taken 7 wickets in Tests, 56 in ODIs and 21 wickets in T20.
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