In his last lap with the team, Leach said that he was determined to return from a knee injury and play a full part in Worcestershire's fight to stay up in Division One of the County Championship. Leach's last outing for Worcestershire came back in May when they faced Nottinghamshire. Worcestershire are currently placed ninth in the ten-team table after managing to win just one of their nine games. They will play five more games before the end of the season. Leach, who was Worcestershire captain from 2017 to 2021, has so far taken 456 first class wickets for the County and finished as leading wicket-taker for six seasons. He also has 3947 runs including two hundreds to his name in 135 matches. "Like all these things, there are a lot of factors that come into it. I've heard that cliche a lot 'when you are ready, you know you are ready' and that has kind of dawned on me this season," Leach, who reinvented himself as Worcestershire's go-to bowler after primarily breaking into the side in the early 2010s as a top six batter. The Staffordshire-born cricketer says retaining Division One status in the Championship would be the perfect way to sign off. He has his eyes set on a comeback against Kent in late August. "I've achieved more than I ever thought I would do in the game but there is one little frontier, one little barrier that I'm massively keen to achieve before I sign off at the end of September. "That is for us to retain our status in Division One and to help the guys in August and September to do that. "I'm back bowling with the plan to be, all things being equal to be ready for that Kent game in August. "I'm desperate to make sure I'm back and ready and putting myself and the team in the best possible position to achieve what we want to at the end of the year. "If we can stay up, it will be a great achievement. I reckon it will be the best thing we've done in four-day cricket since I've been here." "The knee injury, although not the sole contributary factor, has certainly played a part in my decision. The body is probably not able to do what it once was. "But outside of that, I'm just ready really. There is a multitude of reasons that feed into it and I just know - and that is the only thing I can say, I guess. "I think there comes a time in your career when you are excited for the next chapter and that's where I'm at now at this moment."