Lees Whitehead

Who was Lees Whitehead?

Lees Whitehead was an English first-class cricketer, who played in 119 games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1889 and 1904. He also appeared in fifteen games for the MCC and for Wembley Park and Over 30 in first-class games.

Born in Birchen Bank, Friarmere, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England, Whitehead appeared in a total of 136 first-class matches. He scored 2,433 runs as a right-handed batsman, with a highest score of 67 not out against Somerset. He took seventy nine catches in the field, and took 109 wickets with his right arm fast bowling, with a best return of 6 for 45 against the MCC, at an average of 25.67. He took five wickets in an innings on three occasions. He stood as an umpire in at least three first-class, non-County Championship matches towards the end of his playing career.

Whitehead later became a director of Hartlepool United F.C..

He died in November 1913, in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England.