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| Full name | Graham Alan Gooch | |||
| Nickname | Zap, Goochie | |||
| Born | 23 July 1953 | |||
| Whipps Cross, Leytonstone, England | ||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1. The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Whipps Cross University Hospital is an NHS -run University Hospital in Leytonstone, North-east London, which housed London's first Hyperbaric Leytonstone is an area of East London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland 83 m) | |||
| Role | Batsman | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| Test debut (cap 461) | 10 July 1975: v Australia | |||
| Last Test | 3 February 1995: v Australia | |||
| ODI debut (cap 34) | 26 August 1976: v West Indies | |||
| Last ODI | 10 January 1995: v Australia | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1973 – 1997 | Essex | |||
| 1975 – 2000 | MCC | |||
| 1982/3 – 1983/4 | Western Province | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODI | FC | LA | |
| Matches | 118 | 125 | 581 | 614 |
| Runs scored | 8900 | 4290 | 44846 | 22211 |
| Batting average | 42. Mike Powell cricketerjpg|thumb|200px| Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell]] A batsman in the sport of Cricket is depending on context Any Seam bowling is a phrase used for a Cricket bowling technique whereby the ball is deliberately bowled onto its seam to cause a random deviation This is a list of English Test cricketers. A Test match is an international Cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. This is a list of English One-day International cricketers. A One Day International, or an ODI is an international Cricket match between two representative teams Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies or The West Indies, is a multi-national Cricket team representing Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic Cricket structure representing the historic county of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC is a private members' club founded in 1787 Western Province cricket team is the team representing the western half of Cape Province in domestic First-class cricket in South Africa. Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations Note Most of the information here pertains to men's cricket ODI matches are also played in Women's cricket. First-class cricket refers to the class of Cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day form of the Sport of Cricket. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 58 | 36. 98 | 49. 01 | 40. 16 |
| 100s/50s | 20/46 | 8/23 | 128/217 | 44/139 |
| Top score | 333 | 142 | 333 | 198* |
| Balls bowled | 2655 | 2066 | 18785 | 14314 |
| Wickets | 23 | 36 | 246 | 310 |
| Bowling average | 46. A delivery or ball in Cricket is a single action of Bowling a Cricket ball towards the Batsman. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket Bowling average is a Statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the Sport of Cricket. 47 | 42. 11 | 34. 37 | 31. 15 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 3/39 | 3/19 | 7/14 | 5/8 |
| Catches/stumpings | 103/– | 45/– | 555/– | 261/– |
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Graham Alan Gooch, OBE (born July 23, 1953) is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during For other uses see Stump (disambiguation Stump is a term used in the Sport of Cricket where has three different meanings Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries The captain of a Cricket team is a player who during the course of a match has several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic Cricket structure representing the historic county of England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation. Mike Powell cricketerjpg|thumb|200px| Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell]] A batsman in the sport of Cricket is depending on context Any
Gooch was born in Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, in East London. Whipps Cross University Hospital is an NHS -run University Hospital in Leytonstone, North-east London, which housed London's first Hyperbaric Leytonstone is an area of East London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Norlington School for Boys, in London. Norlington School For Boys is a single-sex school located in the borough of Waltham Forest in East London England.
Gooch played first-class cricket regularly between 1973 and 1997. First-class cricket refers to the class of Cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar His debut in Test cricket came in 1975 against Australia, and was marked with a 'pair'. Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [1] He scored 6 and 31 in the next game of the series, and was dropped from the side. He was not selected again until 1978. He had a further hiatus in his career when he went on the controversial 1982 rebel tour of South Africa, which resulted in all of the players concerned being banned from Test cricket for three years. See also International cricket in South Africa (1971 to 1981 The South African rebel tours were a series of cricket tours staged during the 1980s when South The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa
Upon the expiration of the ban, Gooch played for England for many years, but blossomed late in his career after being appointed captain at the end of the "summer of four captains" in 1988. The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official The West Indian cricket team played 16 first-class Cricket matches in England in 1988, under the captaincy of Viv Richards. He scored a record 456 runs in the Lord's Test against India in 1990, 333 in the first innings and 123 in the second. As of 2006, this is the only instance in any first-class cricket of a batsman scoring 300 and 100 in two innings of the same match,[2] and his aggregate of 456 for the match remains a world record for a Test match. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [3] 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), This opinion was vindicated by the ICC rankings, which confirmed it as the highest-ranking innings of all time at any venue.
Rated among the best batsmen in the world for most of the early 1990s, his skills started to fade as his Test match career went on past the age of 40. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 After the fourth Test match of the 1993 Ashes series fellow opening batsman, Michael Atherton, was appointed his successor as captain. Michael Andrew Atherton, OBE (born March 23, 1968, in Failsworth Lancashire, England) is a broadcaster journalist and retired In 1995, at the age of 41, Gooch retired from Test match cricket as England's all-time highest run scorer. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Over his 118 Test career, Gooch played with a record 113 different team mates. He scored 44,846 runs in all first-class cricket at an average of 49. 01, including 128 centuries. Although a number of players have scored more first class runs, if List A matches are also considered — in which he scored a further 22,211 runs, itself a world record[4] — 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. Medium pace bowling is a style of bowling in the Sport of Cricket. 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. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar)
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. David Ivon Gower, OBE (born April 1, 1957) is a retired Cricket player and current cricket broadcaster 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. [5] 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. Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test Cricketer and Test team captain and current 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. Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, known as CMJ (born 20 January 1945, Oxford) is a Cricket journalist and commentator
In the mid-1990s, faced with a receding hairline, Gooch began promoting hair transplants for a London-based clinic, as well as the Australian-based Advanced Hair Studio. Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that involves moving skin containing Hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site to bald or balding Two licensed computer games were made by Audiogenic, Graham Gooch's Test Cricket in 1985 and Graham Gooch World Class Cricket in 1993. Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom game development companies starting in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in Graham Gooch's Test Cricket is a 1985 cricket game released for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum Graham Gooch World Class Cricket is a Cricket video game developed and published by Audiogenic 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. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC is a private members' club founded in 1787 The New Zealand A cricket team is a Cricket team representing New Zealand, and is the "second tier" of international New Zealand cricket below the full The Oxford University Parks, more normally the University Parks, or just Uni Parks to members of the local community is one large parkland area slightly northeast 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. October 2001: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - Keith William Robert Fletcher (nickname "The Gnome of Essex" born May 20, 1944) is a former English Cricketer who played for 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. March 2005: ← - January 2005 - February 2005 - March - April 2005 - May 2005 - June 2005 - July 2005
In 2007 he announced his intention to compete in a beach cricket competition against Courtney Walsh's Team and Allan Border's team. Courtney Andrew Walsh (born October 30, 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a former international Cricketer ( fast bowler Allan Robert Border, AO (born 27 July 1955 is a former Australian Cricket captain
References
- ^ Cricinfo - 1st Test: England v Australia at Birmingham, Jul 10-14, 1975
- ^ Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2006, pages 275–276
- ^ Tests — Most Runs in Match from Cricinfo
- ^ 10,000 or More Runs in ListA Matches, CricketArchive. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (often referred to simply as Wisden or colloquially as "the Bible of Cricket" is by far the best Cricinfo is the largest Cricket -related website and one of the largest websites in the world with more than 20 million users CricketArchive is a Website that aims to provide a comprehensive Archive of records relating to the Sport of Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2006
- ^ When Gower's tour took off. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Cricinfo. Cricinfo is the largest Cricket -related website and one of the largest websites in the world with more than 20 million users Retrieved on 2006-11-06. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with
External links
- Player Profile: Graham Gooch from Cricinfo
- Graham Gooch at CricketArchive
- 'Essex turn to Gooch', BBC Sport
- 'Gooch switches to ambassador role', BBC Sport
- Frank Keating reviews his career in sports journalism and nominates Gooch as having played the greatest Test innings in England
| Preceded by John Emburey David Gower |
English national cricket captain 1988 1989–1993 |
Succeeded by David Gower Mike Atherton |
| Preceded by Keith Fletcher Keith Fletcher |
Essex cricket captain 1986–1987 1989–1994 |
Succeeded by Keith Fletcher Paul Pritchard |