Joe Leach Recent Form
Batting
| WORCS vs LANCS, First class | 30 (25) * |
| WORCS vs LANCS, First class | 2 (9) |
| WORCS vs HAM, First class | 4 (21) |
| WORCS vs HAM, First class | 1 (5) |
| WORCS vs ESS, First class | 5 (8) |
| WORCS vs ESS, First class | 0 (21) |
| WORCS vs KT, First class | 1 (4) |
| WORCS vs NOTS, First class | 3 (14) |
| WORCS vs SUR, First class | 6 (25) |
| WORCS vs SUR, First class | 5 (26) |
Bowling
Joe Leach Career Stats
Teams played for
Worcestershire Worcestershire 2nd XI
About Joe Leach
| Name | Joe Leach |
| Gender | Male |
| Birth | 30 Oct 1990 |
| Birth Place | Stafford, Staffordshire, England |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Nationality | English |
Joe Leach started as a seam-bowling all-rounder but later, he worked on his batting skills to become a complete package. Born in Stafford, Leach moved his way up from minor counties to Worcestershire, before becoming the captain of the county. Over the years, the all-rounder has played more than 100 first-class games and has been Worcestershire’s to-go man with the ball and now with the bat too.... continue reading
Player Bio
Joe Leach started as a seam-bowling all-rounder but later, he worked on his batting skills to become a complete package. Born in Stafford, Leach moved his way up from minor counties to Worcestershire, before becoming the captain of the county. Over the years, the all-rounder has played more than 100 first-class games and has been Worcestershire’s to-go man with the ball and now with the bat too.
Leach started his professional career with minor counties as a right-arm fast bowler who knew to strike the ball in the lower order. The right-armer made his first-class debut for Leeds/Bradford MCCU back in 2012. While he made his Championship debut for Worcestershire in August that year. Leach claimed a maiden first-class century against Gloucestershire in 2013 and a maiden five-wicket haul against Kent in 2014, but it wasn’t until 2015 when he lived up to his name.
During the 2015 county season, the Stafford-born worked on his accuracy to bag 59 wickets, the most by any Worcestershire bowler in the first division. He also took a hat-trick from the first three-ball of a Royal London’s match against Northants that year. Since then, the all-rounder hasn’t looked back, after the departure of Daryl Mitchell. Leach filled in the captaincy boots to become the Kiwiman’s successor, in 2016.
Since the captaincy reign, the Stafford-born has become the go-to bowler for Worcestershire and added his batting abilities - he has become a complete package. However, 2018 saw the Worcestershire captain getting ruled out of much of the summer with a stress back fracture. The following year, he returned to action to have an unpleasant season. But Leach has turned the tables since the 2020 season as his performances both as a captain and a player have been staggering.
(As of July 2021)