Edward Leach (cricketer)
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| Full name | Edward Leach Cecil Leach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 November 1896 Featherstall, Oldham, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
4 January 1973 (aged 76) Nailsea, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Not known | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Not known | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1923–24 | Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924–28 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 30 June 1923 Lancashire v Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 15 June 1928 Somerset v Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 29 November 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward Leach Cecil Leach (28 November 1896 – 4 January 1973) played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Somerset between 1923 and 1928.[1] He was born at Featherstall, Oldham, Lancashire and died at Nailsea, Somerset.
Leach was a professional middle-order or opening batsman and an occasional bowler. It is not known whether he was right- or left-handed. He played regularly for Lancashire's second eleven in the Minor Counties from 1921, enjoying little success until a match against Northumberland in June 1923, when he made 65 and an unbeaten 40, both innings being higher than any he had achieved in more than a dozen matches before.[2] These innings put him into the Lancashire first team and in his first first-class match, against Middlesex at Old Trafford, he made 79 and was the top-scorer in a Lancashire first innings of 385 which effectively won the match.[3] Leach retained his place in the Lancashire team for much of the rest of the 1923 summer, but enjoyed no further success: in 12 other innings, he made only 66 runs in all.
In 1924, Leach played only once for Lancashire in mid-season, again without success, and then unusually appeared for Somerset in an end-of-season match against the South Africans, in which he made 13 and 0.[4] Not qualified for Somerset to play County Championship matches, he played only once in each of the 1925 and 1926 seasons, and not at all in 1927. But in 1928, he was finally qualified to play and he was picked in five early-season matches; but he was not a success and his highest score was just 27, made in the match against Nottinghamshire.[5] Finally dropped mid-season, he did not appear again in first-class cricket.
References
- ↑ "Edward Leach". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Northumberland v Lancashire Second XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 June 1923. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Lancashire v Middlesex". www.cricketarchive.com. 30 June 1923. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 August 1924. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Nottinghamshire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 12 May 1928. Retrieved 29 November 2010.