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Full name Darren Gough
Born September 18, 1970, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire
Current age 34 years 300 days
Major teams England, Essex, Yorkshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 58 86 18 855 65 12.57 1967 43.46 0 2 102 9 13 0
ODIs 157 85 38 590 46* 12.55 929 63.50 0 0 41 5 25 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0
First-class 216 289 54 3984 121 16.95 1 16 44 0
List A 371 206 68 1814 72* 13.14 0 1 61 0
Twenty-20 4 3 2 35 17 35.00 18 194.44 0 0 0 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 58 11821 6503 229 6/42 9/92 28.39 3.30 51.62 14 9 0
ODIs 157 8398 6137 235 5/44 5/44 26.11 4.38 35.73 10 2 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 18 16 3 3/16 3/16 5.33 5.33 6.00 0 0 0
First-class 216 39563 20889 780 7/28 26.78 3.16 50.72 29 3
List A 371 18693 12949 528 7/27 7/27 24.52 4.15 35.40 19 7 0
Twenty-20 4 84 83 6 3/16 3/16 13.83 5.92 14.00 0 0 0
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Test debut England v New Zealand at Manchester - Jun 30-Jul 5, 1994
Last Test England v South Africa at Lord's - Jul 31-Aug 3, 2003
ODI debut England v New Zealand at Birmingham - May 19, 1994
Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005
Only Twenty-20 Int. England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13,
2005
First-class span 1989 - 2005
List A span 1990 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004 - 2005
Dazzler, extrovert, inspirer, attack leader and
England's best strike bowler since Bob Willis and Ian Botham, Darren
Gough grew from often-injured good to match-fit great, until a
long-standing knee problem curtailed his Ashes campaign in 2002-03
and threatened a premature end to his career. Not blessed with the
height of Curtly Ambrose or Glenn McGrath - and thus lacking a stock
ball to match - Gough developed other means by watching,
experimenting and learning. In the process he became England's first
and foremost exponent of reverse-swing and a fine changer of pace.
Just as Fred Trueman needed a straight man in Brian Statham to
complement him, so had Gough in Andy Caddick. A showman like Cork,
with a softer side, Gough could inspire team-mates and crowds with a
diving catch or some daring hitting as well. He had the right
chemistry to cause spontaneous combustion, to make things happen and
help others play above themselves. Nobody contributed more to
England's four series wins in a row in 2000 and 2000-01 than Gough,
who was Man of the Series against West Indies and in Sri Lanka.
Succeeding there and in Pakistan, the traditional graveyard of fast
bowlers, was the final stage of his development, although even his
self-confidence took a battering after England's failure to compete
against Australia the following summer. In need of a rest, he chose
to miss England's trip to India, and though selected for the one-dayers
in New Zealand, he damaged his knee in the final match - it seemed
trivial at the time, but mushroomed into a year of misdiagnosis and
aborted comebacks. He was forced out of the Ashes tour and the World
Cup, but somehow willed himself back to fitness in time for the 2003
season, when lesser mortals would have accepted their fate. And
though he was instrumental in England's NatWest Series victory that
summer, he was exposed in Test cricket, from which he retired after
a heavy Lord's defeat against South Africa. He was overlooked for
the one-day series in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka the following winter,
and, in January 2004, he parted company with Yorkshire after 15
years to head to Essex, giving family reasons as the deciding
factor. Gough returned to the international stage in 2004, but was a
shadow of his former self until England's tour of South Africa the
following winter. With a new spring in his step, he re-established
himself as the leader of the pack, silenced the critics who believed
his days were numbered, and reawakened his dream of playing in the
2007 World Cup
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