Graham Gooch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Cricket player of England.
Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1953
Place of Birth: Whipps Cross, England, United Kingdom
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Graham Gooch
- Graham Alan Gooch, (born 23 July 1953) is a former English first-class cricketer who captained Essex and England.
- He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time, with 67,057 runs across first-class and limited-overs games.
- His List A cricket tally of 22,211 runs is also a record.
- He is one of only twenty-five players to have scored over 100 first-class centuries. Internationally, despite being banned for three years following a rebel tour to ostracized South Africa, Gooch is the second highest Test run scorer for England.
- His playing years spanned much of the period of domination by the West Indies, against whom his mid-forties batting average is regarded as extremely creditable.
- His score of 154 against them at Headingley in 1991 is regarded as one of the greatest centuries of all time by many critics and former players.
- His career-best score of 333 – added to his second innings century – remains the highest match aggregate at Lord's.
- He is the first to make 20 Test appearances at Lord's.
- As captain, Matthew Engel noted, "his fanatical fitness and work-ethic gave the team more purpose than it had shown in a decade."After 118 Tests, aged forty-two, he retired into coaching and as team selector, before becoming a commentator.
- In 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
- He returned to coach Essex, before becoming England batting coach in 2012.
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