Background
He was born at Featherstall, Oldham, Lancashire and died at Nailsea, Somerset.
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. lieutenant is not known whether he was rightor left-handed. 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.
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. Finally dropped mid-season, he did not appear again in first-class cricket.