11 Facts About Ned Eckersley

Edmund John Holden Eckersley was born on 9 August 1989 and is an English cricketer.

Ned Eckersley was a core player of Leicestershire from 2011 to 2018.

Ned Eckersley made his List A debut playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 2008, having previously played for Middlesex Second XI and the MCC Young Cricketers.

In 2010, Ned Eckersley was selected as one of 21 players to form the first Unicorns squad to take part in the Clydesdale Bank 40 domestic one day competition against the regular first-class counties.

In 2011, Ned Eckersley was offered a trial at Leicestershire after some impressive performances in 2010 for the MCC Young Cricketers.

Ned Eckersley spent most of the season with the Second XI, becoming the team's highest scorer, and was rewarded for this late in the 2011 season with a debut for the Leicestershire First XI, against Surrey at Grace Road.

Ned Eckersley then followed that up with some solid batting displays against Gloucestershire in particular, making his maiden first-class fifty, and taking four catches as wicketkeeper.

Ned Eckersley then spent the close season playing for Mountaineers in Zimbabwe.

Ned Eckersley's score of 137 not out was part of a second wicket stand of 245 with Michael Thornely, and was a career best for him at the time.

Ned Eckersley followed this with an extremely successful 2013 season, for which he was named CricInfo's breakthrough player of the season.

Ned Eckersley topped Leicestershire's first-class batting averages, with 1302 runs at 50.07, nearly twice as many runs as any other Leicestershire player.