Nick Knight
The former England opener turned commentators’ middle name was Verity. Verity was a great spinner who played 40 Tests for England which is 23 more than Nick. Verity was killed in the Second World War. In 2005, the Independent newspaper revealed: “Nick’s father and his brother are also called Verity because the great Yorkshire and England left-arm spin bowler Hedley Verity was a distant relation of the family on his father’s side.”
