Winifred Constance Leech (5 August 1920 – 10 May 2000) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played as an

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. She appeared in two

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for

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in 1951, both against

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. She played domestic cricket for

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* * 1920 births 2000 deaths People from Tooting Cricketers from the London Borough of Wandsworth English women cricketers England women Test cricketers Middlesex women cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1920s-stub