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 men's cricket team represents the country of Scotland. They play most of their home matches at The Grange, Edinburgh, as well as at other venues around Scotland. Scotland's history in cricket dates back to the 18th centu ...

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

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cricket for

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. He has coached the

Scotland women's national cricket team The Scotland women's national cricket team 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 involved in the first int ...

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 and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the county of Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borou ...

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, England.

Playing career

Domestic career

A right-handed

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, Knox played for

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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

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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 fi ...

. Knox also played club cricket for Penicuik Cricket Club and

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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

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. 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

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. In 2016, Knox was named as head of the

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References

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1974 births Living people Scottish cricketers Cumberland cricketers Cumberland cricket captains Cricketers from Barrow-in-Furness 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