Jake Needham (born 30 September 1986) is an English

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er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He made his

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first team debut in 2006, having spent two years in the second team.Jake Needham
CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 March 2023. Having first appeared in a Second XI Trophy match, he later appeared in his debut first-team match against

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, a match which he played on the same day as he was supposed to be receiving his

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results. Jake has recently been given a new two-year contract, seeing him stay at the county until at least 2010. In October 2007, Needham traveled to Victoria, Australia, where he has accepted a one-season contract to play for club cricket side St. Mary's during the English Winter. In May 2012, he retired from professional cricket after asking to be released from the final year of his contract with Derbyshire. He is still involved in club cricket at the highest level however and has been appointed captain of

Ockbrook and Borrowash Ockbrook and Borrowash () is a civil parish in the borough of Erewash in the county of Derbyshire in England. It straddles the A52 a few miles east of Derby and contains two adjacent villages: Ockbrook, which lies just north of the A52 and ...

, who play in the Derbyshire Premier League in place of Kevin Dean, another Ex-Derbyshire player.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Needham, Jake 1986 births English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Living people Cricketers from Portsmouth