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Graham Gooch
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Graham Gooch 01jpg
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Medium
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8900
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103/0
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125
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36
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45/0
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7 February
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2001
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OBE (born
July 23 1953 ) is a former
Cricket er who
Captained Essex and
England . He was one of the most successful international
Batsmen of his generation.
Gooch was born in
Whipps Cross Hospital ,
Leytonstone , in East
London .
Gooch played , which resulted in all of the players concerned being banned from Test cricket for three years.
Upon the expiration of the ban, Gooch played for the In the following year against West Indies he scored a match-winning 154 not out, carrying his bat throughout England's second innings against a highly rated pace attack, while only two of his colleagues reached double figures. The veteran sportswriter Frank Keating rated this as the finest Test innings he had ever seen in England (see external link below).
Rated among the best batsmen in the world for most of the early . Retrieved
20 September 2006 — Gooch lays claim to the title of most prolific top flight batsman of all time. Gooch also bowled occasional
Medium Pace , and took over 200 first-class wickets. He could be a prodigious swinger of the ball if conditions suited. In dead matches he could sometimes be seen doing impressions of fellow professionals' bowling styles, most famously against
India in
1979 .
Gooch had a public falling-out with
David Gower , the contemporaneous England batsman, particularly after Gower hired a vintage aircraft and 'buzzed' the ground where England was playing during the unsuccessful tour of Australia in 1990/91. Gooch contributed to the decision to omit Gower from England's tour of India in 1993, which proved so controversial that an extraordinary vote of no confidence in the selectors was passed at the MCC.
1 Gower never played another Test, lending an ironic edge to Gooch's surpassing him as England's leading run scorer in the 1993 Ashes series.
Gooch's ruthless approach to physical training also courted controversy during England's 1992 World Cup campaign, especially with
Ian Botham . Hints were dropped that Gooch's unrelenting regime had led to burn-out within the team, culminating in their losing the final to Pakistan, whom they had been on course to defeat easily in a rain-affected match earlier in the tournament.
For Essex, Gooch scored 120 in the 1979 Benson and Hedges Cup final against Surrey, a match which saw Essex win a major domestic trophy for the first time in their history. This heralded a highly successful period for the county, with Gooch a key member of a team that won the county championship six times in the years 1979-1992, and also won every other major domestic trophy at least once in the same period. Gooch holds numerous Essex batting records: in particular he scored the most first-class runs in a season (2559, scored in 1984 while banned from playing for England), and made more first-class centuries (94) for the county than any other player. Essex record partnerships for both the first and second wicket were set by Gooch and Paul Prichard.
Upon his retirement,
Christopher Martin-Jenkins wrote an article in Wisden Cricketers Almanack arguing that Gooch was the all-time highest run scorer in top level cricket, if one day matches were taken into account.
In the mid-1990s, faced with a receding hairline, Gooch began promoting
Hair Transplant s for a London-based clinic, as well as the Australian-based
Advanced Hair Studio . Two licensed computer games were made by
Audiogenic ,
Graham Gooch's Test Cricket in 1985 and
Graham Gooch World Class Cricket in 1993.
He made a one-off return to first-class cricket in July 2000, just a few days before his 47th birthday, when he captained
MCC against
New Zealand A at
The Parks . It was not a successful comeback: Gooch made only 0 and 5 in the game.
In
October 2001 , he returned to Essex in the capacity of head coach, taking over from
Keith Fletcher . Gooch held this role until stepping down in
March 2005 , although he remains at the club, continuing as the squad's specialist batting coach whilst also assuming commercial duties for the county.
He is now going to compete in a beach cricket competetion against
Courtney Walsh 's Team and
Allan Border 's team in 2007
Cricketer Information
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581
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44,846
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4901
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333
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18,785
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246
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3437
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3
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0
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7-14
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555/0
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614
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22,221
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4016
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44/139
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198
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14,308
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310
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3115
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1
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5-8
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261/0
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29 June
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2005
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