{"id":192920,"date":"2026-07-12T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=192920"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:35:01","slug":"englands-knight-in-shining-armour-walks-into-the-sunset-at-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=192920","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Knight in shining armour walks into the sunset at Lord\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71214816\">This has been a summer of farewells in women\u2019s cricket. Heather Knight is the latest one to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>Knight, the first woman to hit hundreds in all the three formats, will not play for England after the historic Lord\u2019s Test against India. She made the announcement midway through the match.<\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps fitting that her last international game came at Lord\u2019s. She had told this correspondent how much she loved the iconic ground during an interview at Guwahati a few years ago. \u201cLord\u2019s is my favourite ground,\u201d Knight had said. \u201cIt is just five or six miles away from where I live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it was at Lord\u2019s her greatest moment came, in 2017, when she led England to the World Cup triumph, after beating India in the final. Her final innings didn\u2019t go the way she would have wanted it, though. She could only make 13, and for once, she could not take England out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely grateful and privileged to have gone on the journey that I have been on as an England cricketer,\u201d said Knight, who scored more than 8,000 international runs. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to walk away because the dressing room and the people in the dressing room have been a constant in my life for 16 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 12, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/india-vs-england-lords-test-heather-knight-retirement-stats-career\/article71214816.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a summer of farewells in women\u2019s cricket. Heather Knight is the latest one to say goodbye. Knight, the first woman to hit hundreds in all the three formats, will not play for England after the historic Lord\u2019s Test against India. She made the announcement midway through the match. It is perhaps fitting &#8230; <a title=\"England\u2019s Knight in shining armour walks into the sunset at Lord\u2019s\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=192920\" aria-label=\"Read more about England\u2019s Knight in shining armour walks into the sunset at Lord\u2019s\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783892102_image2052.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":189555,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=189555","url_meta":{"origin":192920,"position":0},"title":"Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 \u2014 Nine years on, resurgent Heather Knight looks to recreate Lord\u2019s heroics","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Heather Knight led England to victory in the 2017 World Cup, after beating India in the final at Lord\u2019s. 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