Darren Gough

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Darren Gough
England (ENG)

Batsman>Batting style

Right-handed batsman (RHB)

Types of bowlers in cricket>Bowling type

Right arm fast (RF)

Tests

ODIs

Matches

148

'''Runs scored

855

527

Batting average

12.57

11.45

100s/50s

0/2

0/0

Top score

Darren Gough (born September 18 1970, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. He was arguably England's best pace bowler since Bob Willis. Darren has taken 229 wickets from 58 Test matches that he has played in making him England's 8th most successful wicket taker. Gough is a right arm fast medium bowler and right handed batsman. 5' 11" and broad in beam, he achieves his pace from a good approach to the wicket and a beautiful, leaping sideways-on action. He played county cricket for Yorkshire for 15 years before moving to Essex in 2004.

Gough bowling for Essex against Cambridge UCCE

He was first selected for the England cricket team in 1994, playing both Test and one-day international cricket. He made an impact as a bowler and as a tail-end batsman, and the media, as is usual with practically any aggressive England all-rounder, quickly dubbed him the "new Botham"; like most such pretenders to that throne, he did not fully ascend to such lofty heights, but his continued presence in the England team became a vital one in both personality and play. Memorable highlights of his Test career included taking the 23rd hat-trick in Test cricket against Australia at Sydney in 1999. His only first class century came against Warwickshire in 1996 at Headingley.
He retired from Test cricket in 2003 after a knee injury threatened to end his career, having taken 229 wickets with a bowling average of 28.39. He has continued playing one-day international cricket, and became the first Englishman to take 200 wickets in one-day cricket in September 2004. In January 2005, he played for the World XI in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal one-day international versus the Asian XI.
Gough asked not to be considered for selection for England's tour of Pakistan in October–December 2005 so that he could spend more time with his family. Selectors were content with his decision until it was discovered that he had signed up to take part in the BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing, which he subsequently won with his dancing partner Lilia Kopylova. Gough noted that this would keep him fit whilst allowing him to spend the winter with his family and, visibly at least, had the support of his England colleagues. He still harbours ambitions to play in the 2007 World Cup, despite warnings from selectors that he may now have difficulty in regaining his spot in the one-day team.
He was subsequently omitted from the ODI party to tour India in February and March 2006, prompting renewed speculation that his career was at an end.

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