Editing Len Shackleton (section)

==Cricket career==
While playing for Sunderland, Shackleton played [[cricket]] for Wearmouth Colliery and for [[Northumberland County Cricket Club|Northumberland]] in the 1948 [[Minor Counties Cricket Championship|Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/117/117811/117811.html|title=Player profile: Len Shackleton|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 August 2011}}</ref> His genius and humour was also evident on the cricket field. At Wearmouth, he would entertain the crowd by pretending to miss slip catches, then looking behind him as if the ball had gone to the boundary, before producing the ball from his pocket. While at Sunderland he played for Wearmouth Colliery in the Durham Senior League. He also played [[cricket]] for Lidget Green in the [[Bradford League]], and for Northumberland in the Minor Counties League.