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April 16, 2019 County cricket / England

Are we talking about Haseeb Hameed or Jack Leach this week?

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December 4, 2018 England

Why Jack Leach is not ‘better’ than Adil Rashid

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November 1, 2016 England

Jack Leach and why you should never pick your saviours

2 minute readEngland lost to Bangladesh. There has to be a reason for it and it has to be that they picked the wrong players. One obvious area in which England were inferior was the spin department. Last season Jack Leach took more wickets than the spinners who played in the last

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  1. King Cricket on A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should definitely buyApril 13, 2026

    Have you seen the photo of him on the Beeb? Not the most flattering. He looks like Albert Steptoe.

  2. A P Webster on A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should definitely buyApril 13, 2026

    Was unbeaten with the bat in both innings as well. An up-and-coming all-rounder

  3. Sam on A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should definitely buyApril 13, 2026

    Decent performance from Lancashire's skipper. Looks a good prospect. Shame second division doesn't count.

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    Clearly someone once said told Peter Svidler en passant [did you see what I did there] that cricket is like…

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