Herpen is a village in Noord-Brabant. It lies between Oss and Nijmegen. There live approximately 3,000 people.

Since 2003, Herpen is part of municipality Oss. In the period 1941 - 2003 it was part of municipality Ravenstein, a small city near the river Maas. Before 1941, Herpen had its own municipality, covering the villages Overlangel and Koolwijk.

In the early history, Herpen was the home of Alard van Herpen, a medieval lord. The region was then called "Herpina" or "Het land van Herpen" (Land of Herpen), covering what would later be known as the Land of Ravenstein. Herpen was a central hub, but with the coming of river trade in a later stage, the city of Ravenstein became due to its location at the Maas the main trading hub.

Herpen is known for its "verengings-leven"(meaning that the community is doing much for each other). They have a soccer club, called Herpinia, a tennis club called VIP and several smaller unions. Each year, with the Dutch carnival, a lot of people flock to Herpen to see its parade. Other events are the annual markets and festivals. These are used by foundations as "Stichting Herpen Woord en Beeld" en "Stichting Carnival" to finance other events or happenings in the community.

The people from Herpen are sometimes referred to as "Bonne", meaning "beans". With carneval Herpen becomes "Bonneland". This is a reference to the beans that were a main product from Herpen's farmers.

The small community "Koolwijk" is (un-officially) considered as a part of Herpen.

External links[link]

• Herpen Online (Dutch)
• Stichting Carnaval (Dutch)
• Herpinia (Dutch)

Coordinates: 51°46′N 5°39′E / 51.767°N 5.65°E / 51.767; 5.65

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Nicholas Verity Knight (born Watford, Hertfordshire, England on 28 November 1969) is a former England cricketer. Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation.^[1] A left-handed opening batsman and a fine fielder, Knight played in 17 Test Matches and 100 One Day Internationals before announcing his retirement from international cricket after the 2003 World Cup.

He was educated at Felsted School in Essex and Loughborough University and was an outstanding cricketer from an early age. He won the Daily Telegraph 'Young Cricketer of the Year' award in 1989 and he played cricket for Brentwood cricket club in 1989/91. In domestic cricket, he began his career with Essex in 1991 before transferring to Warwickshire four years later. He was captain of Warwickshire from 2003 to 2005, and led them to victory in the County Championship in the 2004 season. He retired from first-class cricket after the 2006 season and is now a member of the Sky Sports cricket commentary team. He finished his career with 16,172 runs at 44.18 and 40 hundreds. His highest score was an unbeaten 303.

Career[link]

Test Cricket[link]

He struggled in the Test arena and made only one century, an innings of 113 vs Pakistan at Headingley in 1996. His next best score was 96 vs Zimbabwe in a drawn game at Bulawayo in 1996-97.

Knight was a far more successful, and certainly regular, one day player for England. The most obvious reason for this was his technique. Never afraid of genuine fast bowling, his footwork was often not decisive enough which caused him at times to appear to be backing away from short balls and his test innings frequently ended giving a catch to the slips or the wicket-keeper. As a fine fielder and a hard worker - it is surprising that he did not play more for England - the England team was not blessed with too many good batsman during Knight's era. However two of the better batsmen were Michael Atherton and Mark Butcher with whom Knight was vying for a place for most of his career. Atherton too was captain of England until 1998 so would have been an automatic choice for opening batsman.

One Day Internationals[link]

In one-day cricket, this backing away in fact helped him score a lot of runs and became something of a hallmark. This same strength / weakness was, curiously enough, mirrored in Michael Bevan - one of Knight's contemporaries. Whether Knight would have had Bevan's success had he been used in a similar "finishing" position is debatable but Knight could certainly have played more ODIs for England than he did.

Debuting in 1996, he scored centuries in his second and third innings in ODI cricket, on consecutive days against a Pakistan bowling attack that included Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

Knight wasn't selected for the World Cup team in 1999 and made his World Cup debut in the 2003 tournament. He performed well in an unsuccessful campaign for England and faced the first delivery in cricket^{[citation needed]} officially to break the 100 mph barrier, bowled by Shoaib Akhtar.

One Day International Centuries[link]

ODI Centuries of Nick Knight
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	113	2	Pakistan	Manchester, England	Old Trafford	1996
[2]	125*	3	Pakistan	Nottingham, England	Trent Bridge	1996
[3]	122	17	West Indies	Bridgetown, Barbados	Kennington Oval	1998
[4]	105	70	India	Delhi, India	Feroz Shah Kotla	2002
[5]	111*	86	Australia	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	2002

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Nick Knight from ESPNcricinfo

v t e England squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup 1 Stewart (c/wk) 2 Austin 3 Croft 4 Ealham 5 Fairbrother 6 Flintoff 7 Fraser 8 Gough 9 Hick 10 Hollioake 11 Hussain 12 Knight 13 Mullally 14 Thorpe 15 Wells Coach: Lloyd

v t e England squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Knight 2 Caddick 3 Hussain 4 Stewart 6 White 11 Flintoff 15 Irani 22 Hoggard 23 Trescothick 28 Harmison 29 Giles 37 Blackwell 40 Anderson 50 Collingwood 99 Vaughan Coach: Fletcher

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