The right rose is in the name for Jack White
Jack White arrived at Headingley from Northamptonshire in November 2024, signing a two-year contract, and made an instant impression.
He was new head coach Anthony McGrath’s first recruit, and he claimed 56 all-format wickets in 2025, including 42 from 13 Championship appearances.
The 33-year-old returned a best of 5-69 in the first innings of the season-ending Rothesay County Championship win over Durham at Headingley.
His full name is Curtley-Jack White, all because his father liked the name of the West Indian Test game, Curtly Ambrose. And while he may not possess the express pace of Ambrose, he does have skill in bucketloads, as he showed in his first campaign with Yorkshire.
White was a late starter in professional cricket, having only made his first-team debut aged 28 in August 2020. That was for Northamptonshire in a Bob Willis Trophy fixture against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Born in Kendal, the major gateway town to the Lake District, he played age-group cricket for Cumbria and went on to play Minor Counties cricket for Cumberland and Cheshire.
In that sense, the comparisons to England limited overs quick Richard Gleeson are understandable. He grew up over the other side of the Pennines, he was plucked out of league and Minor Counties cricket to play for Northamptonshire and has progressed impressively ever since.
White has played club cricket in the Lancashire, Northern and Cheshire Leagues and has also played out in Australia and New Zealand during the winters, the latter where he has family.
Northamptonshire offered him some second-team cricket in 2018 and then a subsequent contract.
In 2023, he claimed 50 Championship wickets from 14 matches when Northamptonshire were in Division One. He was named their Players’ Player of the Year. He wasn’t fair off matching that last summer.
His career best of 6-38 came against McGrath’s Essex at Chelmsford at the back end of the 2022 season, a Championship match in which he claimed nine wickets overall.
White’s last game for Northamptonshire was against Yorkshire at Headingley in the final Championship match of 2024, in late September.
He quickly settled in at the same venue in 2025, quickly making himself a popular figure with players, coaches and supporters, and subsequently signed a two-year extension to his contract, running through until 2028.
UPDATED: Feb 2026.
