One of England's great cricket legends is to be remembered in his home town of Shipley.

A new road will be named after off-spinner Jim Laker - the first player in the world to take ten wickets in an innings in a Test match.

Born in Frizinghall in 1922 and educated at Saltaire High School, which was in Victoria Road, Saltaire, Laker worked as a delivery boy at his parents' Co-operative shop in Gordon Terrace - just 100 yards from where his name is now to be adorned.

Tonight the Shipley Area Committee is recommended to accept Jim Laker Place as the title for a street off Fernhill Road where a new Anchor sheltered housing complex is being built.

Councillor Martin Love (Green, Shipley West) suggested the sporting hero's name and said it would be a fitting tribute.

"We may not have been blessed with many local heroes in Shipley to name things after, but one we have had who has never been acknowledged is Jim Laker," he said.

Laker, who died in 1986, played for Saltaire Cricket Club in the Bradford League from 1938 until he joined the Royal Ordanance Corps in the Middle East during World War Two.

Despite being torn away from his beloved cricket, Laker practised spinning the ball on coconut matting wickets under the burning sun of the desert.

Saltaire Cricket Club secretary Geoff Porter said: "In those days he was mainly a batsman who could bowl a bit but it was in the Army that he learned his legendary spin technique."

Laker would often visit his first ground at Roberts Park where he was remembered with a plaque on the former scorebox which is to be replaced later this year.

After the war he worked for the War Office and was snapped up by Surrey County Cricket Club and went on to play for England.

Telegraph & Argus cricket correspondent David Warner said Laker would have liked to have played for Yorkshire.

"He was one of the greatest players of his generation and naming a street after him will ensure the legend lives on," he said.