DEREK PRINGLE

Remodelled: Jack Leach showed off his new action for the MCC in the Champion match against Middlesex
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It isn’t often I wish an opponent of Essex good luck but Jack Leach, Somerset’s left-arm spinner, deserves it after spending the winter remodelling an action few even suspected was flawed.
Leach, who took 65 wickets for Somerset in the County Championship last season, was set to spend the winter for England Lions when routine filming at Loughborough picked up a kink in his bowling arm. Under the current Laws, flexion of up to 15 degrees i...