Jack Leach

England spinner Jack Leach has signed a two-year contract extension with Somerset County Cricket Club which will see him play until at least the end of the 2024 season.

Following a loss in the second Test, England named three spinners in the playing XI for the decisive third Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi. With the series standing at 1-1, critical changes include Gus Atkinson's return and Rehan Ahmed's inclusion. Key players like Brydon Carse and Matthew Potts are excluded as England aims for a series win.

On Wednesday, England announced their eleven players who will take field against India in the opening Test of the five-match series beginning on Thursday in Hyderabad. There are as many as four spinners in the line-up and one seamer, with Lancashire's Tom Hartley set to make his Test debut.

England spinner Jack Leach admitted Wednesday that Australian counterpart Nathan Lyon was "impressive" and he had been studying how he deals with local conditions ahead of the first Ashes Test next week.

England's Ashes preparations were dealt a blow on Sunday as frontline spinner Jack Leach was ruled out of the series due to a lower back stress fracture.

England spinner Jack Leach is set to undergo knee surgery on Tuesday, ending his participation in the five-Test tour of India. Leach, England's most experienced spinner, only featured in the opening Test at Hyderabad. He sustained an injury during the first Test, causing severe swelling, and withdrawing from the tour after missing the second Test.

England's Jack Leach will undergo surgery after a knee injury ruled him out of the ongoing Test series in India, the spinner said on Saturday.

Former off-spinner Graeme Swann wants England's tweakers to stay patient in the upcoming Test series in India and has picked Jake Leach to play a key role during the tour. The spin duo of Leach and Dom Bess had five-wicket hauls in England's win in the first Test against Sri Lanka, but returned wicket-less in the home team's first innings of the ongoing second Test in Galle.

England's left-arm spinner, Jack Leach, holds the optimistic belief that he should be fully prepared for the next year's Test tour of India, contingent upon the successful completion of his rehabilitation process and careful management of his bowling workload.

Absent from the team's training session on Wednesday, Jack Leach was observed receiving treatment from the physio on the sidelines, indicating the severity of his injury and the need for a break from the upcoming match. His absence will be a notable loss for the English side, given his experience and skills as a spinner.

Dom Bess was preferred to Moeen Ali and Jack Leach as England named a 13-man squad for its long-awaited return to Test cricket against Windies next week. Bess was confirmed as the team's current number one in the spin department having excelled in training camp. Ben Stokes will deputise as captain, with Joe Root missing out because of the impending birth of his child.

England spinner Jack Leach said he surpassed his own expectations after getting his 100th Test wicket on Saturday, calling it a "special" achievement. On day two of the second Test against Pakistan, Leach dismissed Saud Shakeel to reach the milestone in his 31st Test. The left-armer ended the innings with 4-98, having helped put England in command of the match.

England are beaming with the return of Ben Stokes for the Ashes but few players could be happier than spinner Jack Leach, who sees the pugnacious all-rounder as his own ticket back into the Test set-up.

England’s Jack Leach feared his international career might be over after a knee injury kept him out since January. Recalled for the Pakistan tour, Leach excelled with 14 wickets in two games. He expressed determination to stay fit and praised Shoaib Bashir's impressive performance in his absence, highlighting their good relationship.

Former England skipper Michael Vaughan on Wednesday said that he feels for spinner Jack Leach, after he was dropped from England's playing XI for the first Test against New Zealand, being played at the Lord's Cricket Ground.

Bowling quicker in the air brought success to Monty Panesar in the 2012 tour of India but England left-arm spinner Jack Leach feels the same tactic may not work for him on his maiden series against the mighty hosts.

England named an unchanged 14-man squad Wednesday for next week's third and deciding Test against South Africa at the Oval.

Former England captain Michael Atherton believes that India's potent spin attack, led by Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, and Axar Patel, will secure the five-Test home series victory over Ben Stokes and the England team.

West Indies were all out for 375, leading England by 64 runs after the first innings of the first Test in North Sound on Friday. The hosts added only two runs to their overnight score before losing their final wicket when Jayden Seales was out lbw for a duck to spinner Jack Leach on the third ball of day four on the island of Antigua.

Spinner Jack Leach bowled England to the brink of victory in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Sunday, but is still taking things one day at a time after a horror 15 months with illness and misfortune that threatened his Test career. "It is a slow wicket, so I felt my pace needed to be a bit quicker. I wanted to be faster and more direct at the areas I want to bowl."

Wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler and left-arm spinner Jack Leach on Tuesday returned to the England squad for the fifth and final Test against India as the hosts gear up to save the series.

England captain Joe Root on Tuesday backed Jack Leach and Rory Burns to bounce back from dismal Ashes performances, as star all-rounder Ben Stokes declared himself fit to carry the fight to Australia.

Despite Jack Leach's injury, the left-arm spinner displayed remarkable discipline and control during his spells. Throughout the day, Leach bowled six spells, including two of four overs each. He maintained an impressive economy, conceding just 30 runs and delivering four maiden overs. Assistant coach Jeetan Patel expressed confidence in Leach's recovery, stating that he would be "back and raring to go." In the absence of the injured Leach, England's Joe Root and Tom Hartley stepped up to share the bowling load.

Former pacer Steve Harmison wants England to pick off-spinner Moeen Ali for the opening Test of the three-game series against the West Indies beginning at Southampton on July 8.

First-timers Dawid Malan, Jack Leach and Ollie Robinson were among 20 England cricketers who were awarded central contracts on Friday, a change from their cricket board's earlier policy of handing players separate red-ball and white-ball deals.

England spinner Jack Leach feels his team's performance against India in the upcoming five-match Test series will determine where it stands in terms of growth and he is personally confident of doing well, having played against them in an away assignment earlier this year.

England spinner Jack Leach said he hoped to put behind him the bad memories of the last time he toured New Zealand when food poisoning left him fearing for his life.

England's lead spinner Jack Leach says he is ready for a new role as the day/night pink ball Test against India looks set to bring the seamers back into the forefront after the tweakers' domination in the first two matches.

England's Jack Leach has been ruled out of the second Test against India through injury, with his Somerset team-mate Shoaib Bashir now nearer an international debut as a result. Left-arm spinner Leach, 32, played a limited role in England's stunning 28-run win in the series opener, where Ben Stokes's men overcame a first-innings deficit of 190 runs, following a problem with his left knee. "He's ruled out of the second Test. Unfortunately the knock he took resulted in a haematoma," Ben Stokes told British media.

Paceman Ollie Robinson has been ruled out of England's first Test against the West Indies in Antigua after suffering a back spasm, with uncapped seamer Saqib Mahmood brought into the squad.