Graham Gooch

Graham Alan Gooch (born July 23 1953) was an English cricketer.

Gooch was born in Whipps Cross hospital on 23rd July 1953, in East London. As such playing cricket for Essex was hardly a surprise.

He played between 1973 and 2000 in first-class cricket. His debut in Test cricket came in 1975. Gooch played for the England team for many years, but had a bloom late in his career, scoring a record 456 runs in a test in the 1990 series with India, made up of a score of 333 in the first innings (one of the highest scores of all time) and 123 in the second. He continued to bloom as captain of England, rated the best batsmen in the world for most of the early 1990s, but as he got older his skills started to fade, and as his Test match career went on past the age of 40, it became clear that he would have to pass on the captaincy to a successor. This was his fellow opening batsman, Michael Atherton. Soon after, at the age of 42 in 1995, Gooch retired from Test match cricket,as England's all time highest run scorer. He scored well over 40000 runs in all first class cricket, including over 100 centuries. Gooch also bowled occasional David Gower |width="40%" align="center"|English national cricket captain
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Mike Atherton
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