Steven Thomas Knox (born 16 February 1974) is an English

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coach and former player. He played for the

Scotland national cricket team The Scotland national cricket team represents the country of Scotland. They play their home matches at The Grange, Edinburgh, and also some other venues. Scotland became Associate Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1994

from 2003 to 2007 after meeting residency qualifications, and also played

minor counties The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes unde ...

cricket for Cumberland. He has coached the

Scotland women's national cricket team The Scotland women's national cricket team, nicknamed the Wildcats, represents Scotland in international women's cricket. The team is organised by Cricket Scotland, an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Scotland was ...

and the Germany men's national cricket team.

Personal life

Knox was born on 16 February 1974 in

Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness is a port town in Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness. In 202 ...

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, England.

Playing career

Domestic career

A right-handed

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, Knox played for

Cumberland County Cricket Club Cumbria County Cricket Club (formerly Cumberland County Cricket Club) is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. Originally, it represented the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorlan ...

in the

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between 1994 and 2009. He also played several

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matches for Cumberland, notably scoring 108 not out in a victory against

Nottinghamshire Cricket Board The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Nottinghamshire. From 1999 to 2003 the Board fielded a team in the English domestic one-day tournament, matches which had List-A stat ...

in the

2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 29 August 2002 and 30 August 2003. The competition was won by Gloucestershire who beat Worcestershire by 7 wickets at Lord's. Format The eighteen f ...

. Knox also played club cricket for Penicuik Cricket Club and Heriot's Cricket Club in Scotland and for St Albans Cricket Club in

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, New Zealand.

International career

In 2003, Knox became eligible to play international cricket for Scotland after playing seven years of Scottish club cricket. He debuted for Scotland in the same year and played most of his matches for Scotland against English counties in the

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. Knox played four

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matches for Scotland, debuting against

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in 2004 and concluding against

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in 2007. He was named in Scotland's preliminary 24-man squad for the 2005 international season, but failed to make the final 14-man squad for the

2005 ICC Trophy The 2005 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament held in Ireland between 1 July and 13 July 2005. It was an international one-day tournament played over 50 overs per side between 12 Associate Members of the International Cricket Council. It served a ...

Coaching career

In January 2014, Knox was appointed head coach of the

Germany national cricket team The German national cricket team is the men's team that represents the country of Germany in international cricket. The German Cricket Federation, which organises the team, has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (IC ...

. He continued to coach Germany on a part-time basis until February 2023. His tenure included back-to-back titles at 2016 ICC Europe Division Two and 2017 ICC Europe Division One, which saw Germany progress to

2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five The 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five was an international cricket tournament that took place in Benoni, South Africa during September 2017. It formed part of the 2017–19 cycle of the World Cricket League (WCL) which determines ...

. In

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cricket, Germany narrowly lost to

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at the 2019 European qualifier. At the 2021 qualifier the team narrowly defeated

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on net run rate to qualify for its first global qualifier, the

2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier A The 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier A was a cricket tournament that took place in February 2022 in Oman, as one of two global tournaments that together form the final stage of the qualification process for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 Wo ...

. In 2016, Knox was named as head of the

, taking over from

Kari Carswell Kari Carswell also known as Kari Anderson (born 21 October 1982) is a former Scottish cricketer and coach who was the former captain of the Scotland women's national cricket team. She had established a playing and coaching career with Scotland wo ...

.KNOX NAMED NEW SCOTLAND WOMEN'S HEAD COACH
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1974 births Living people Scottish cricketers Cumberland cricketers Cumberland cricket captains Sportspeople from Barrow-in-Furness Cricketers from Cumbria Scottish cricket coaches Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Coaches of the Scotland women's national cricket team Coaches of national cricket teams {{Scotland-cricket-bio-stub