Alexander Rutherford Knight (24 January 1899 – 8 April 1986) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago between the 1918–19 and 1943–44 seasons.
Alec Knight was born in Dunedin and educated at Otago Boys' High School.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 77. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He played 51 first-class matches, mostly as an opening batsman. He scored 56 and 152 ― his only first-class century ― for Otago against Canterbury in 1940–41, his 50th and second-last first-class match. When Otago played the touring English team in 1929–30 he top-scored in each innings with 44 and 51.T. W. Reese, New Zealand Cricket: 1914–1933, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1936, pp. 445–46. His highest score in the Plunket Shield was 83 after Otago trailed by 333 runs on the first innings against Wellington in 1927–28.
Professionally Knight was a civil servant. He died in Auckland in 1986, aged 87.Alec Knight, Cricinfo. Retrieved 31 May 2023. An obituary was published in the New Zealand Cricket Almanack.
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