Lees Whitehead

Lees Whitehead (14 March 1864 – 22 November 1913) 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 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1890-1903) and for Wembley Park (1896) and over 30 (1901) in first-class games.

Born in Birchen Bank, Friarmere near Saddleworth in Yorkshire, 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.