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Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1980 Graham Gooch made his debut as a 21 year old against Australia at Birmingham in 1975. The match gave Graham Gooch his first pair in test cricket. Graham Gooch started as an aggressive batsman, looking to bludgeon every ball out of the boundary line. Years of test cricket, besides receding his hairline also put a leash on his reckless batting. Graham Gooch created a record when he scored 456 runs in a test match against India at Lords in 1990. Graham Gooch had scored 333 in the first inning and followed it with a 123 runs in the second innings. The following year, Graham Gooch gave a further proof of his class when he carried his bat against the deadly West Indian attack by scoring a match-winning 154 runs. Graham Gooch was a successfully captained England for many years. He was an exacting leader and often ran into criticisms for being excessively harsh on his players. Graham Gooch courted controversy when he took a rebel team to South Africa and was duly awarded a three-year ban. Graham Gooch played in 118 test matches and scored 8900 runs at an average of 42.58 runs. In his 125 ODIs, Graham Gooch scored 4290 runs at an average of 36.98 runs. In the wake of Graham Gooch's retirement, Christopher Martin-Jenkins argued in an article in Wisden Cricketers Almanac, that Graham Gooch was the all time highest scorer in the top-level cricket, if one-day international runs were included. livescore.warofcricket.com gives information on Graham Gooch and other Great Cricket Players. |
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