Charli Rae Knott was born in Queensland, Australia on 29th November 2002 and is a right-handed batter and right arm off spinner.
Knott made her professional debut in 2018, aged just 15, against Tasmania, and a few months later playing for Australia U19s, she claimed figures of 4-20 against New Zealand Women’s Development XI.
In 2021, Knott recorded her career-best score of 68 batting at three against New South Wales and made 51 for Wellington in the 2022-23 Super Smash.
Knott was also part of Australia’s tour of England last summer where she played seven times for Australia A and scored 155 runs and took six wickets.
She scored 41 on Vipers debut against South East Stars at Beckenham, and followed it up with a half-century in her first home game against Central Sparks.
Then, in just her fifth game for the club, she recorded her first ever List A century as she brought up three figures against Western Storm at Bristol, 102 from 112 balls as the Vipers won by four runs.
In the Charlotte Edwards Cup, she continued her good form with the bat reaching another fifty against the Sunrisers before taking a career-best 4-23 against the Storm at the Utilita Bowl.
Appearances for the Australia A side followed in August, picking up 1-35 and 3-34 in a test match win over India A.
Knott finished the season with 563 runs and 32 wickets from 20 appearances for the Vipers across all competitions, and she finished the Charlottle Edwards Cup as the side’s leading wicket-taker with 16 from 11 games.
Knott’s Brisbane Heat reached the final of the Women’s Big Bash League, losing to the Melbourne Stars in the final. She continued to perform in the Australian summer, with two further half-centuries and 10 wickets in the Women’s National Cricket league.
Knott will return to the Utilita Bowl for the first half of 2025, available for the first eight Metro Bank One Day Cup and Vitality Blast fixtures.
During the 2024-25 WNCL in Australia, Knott scored a second century when she made 110 against South Australia.
She followed it up with scores of 87* and 62 against Victoria in back-to-back matches. Knott also picked up figures of 3-22 in the third match of the competition against Western Australia.
Her performances helped Queensland to the final of the WNCL, but her side were defeated by Georgia Adams’ New South Wales in a low-scoring thriller.
