After his five-wicket haul, a weary Jack Leach credited the ever-encouraging captaincy of Ben Stokes for alloying his previously fragile confidence
His work for the winter done – with the ball at least – a weary Jack Leach sat down in the press conference after day four in Wellington and reflected on the progress he believes he has personally made.
“I feel like I have come on a lot,” said Leach, a cricketer who admits his previously fragile confidence has been alloyed by the ever-encouraging captaincy of Ben Stokes. Asked about his captain’s message after sticking New Zealand back in, Leach replied: “He said: ‘give everything you have got. Sometimes it is just hard graft. You have to keep going, give that bit more and enjoy the graft rather than worry about things not happening’.
Leach’s returns from five Tests this winter are 285 overs, 25 wickets at an average of 40 apiece. The 31 year-old revealed at the start of this tour he no longer sweat the last of those digits, Stokes having consistently set attacking fields and placed the focus solely on making breakthroughs.
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