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Leighshe Jacobs

South African cricketer who currently plays for Boland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6519723 ↗
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Leighshe Zanell Jacobs (born 6 April 1985) is a South African former cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm leg break bowler. She played two Test matches for South Africa in 2003. She played domestic cricket for Western Province and Boland.

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The public source identifies “Leighshe Jacobs” as south African cricketer who currently plays for Boland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Leighshe, Jacobs and South.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-04-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Leighshe, Jacobs and South providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6519723. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leighshe Jacobs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.