darren gough Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
darren gough is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Darren Gough
Born
September 18, 1970, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire
Age
53 years old
Nicknames
Rhino, Dazzler
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Height
5ft 11in
Education
Priory Comprehensive
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 58 | 159 | 2 | - |
Inn | 86 | 87 | - | - |
Runs | 855 | 609 | - | - |
Avg | 12.39 | 12.43 | - | - |
SR | 43.47 | 64.31 | - | - |
HS | 65 | 46 | - | - |
NO | 17 | 38 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 2 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 102 | 43 | - | - |
6s | 9 | 5 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 58 | 159 | 2 | - |
Inn | 95 | 156 | 2 | - |
Balls | 11821 | 8470 | 41 | - |
Runs | 6503 | 6209 | 49 | - |
Wkt | 229 | 235 | 3 | - |
BBI | 42 / 6 | 44 / 5 | 16 / 3 | - |
BBM | 92 / 9 | 44 / 5 | 16 / 3 | - |
Eco | 3.3 | 4.4 | 7.17 | - |
Avg | 28.4 | 26.42 | 16.33 | - |
5W | 9 | 2 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- LJ Gough
- England
- Essex
- Yorkshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
The 5 foot 11 inch man made his first-class debut at the age of 19 for his home county Yorkshire. He was known to swing the ball both ways and was often termed as a skiddy customer with the ball. He stayed with Yorkshire for 15 years during which, in 1993, the club's foreign signing Richie Richardson, advised him to forget the critics on his broad frame and asked him to concentrate on raw pace. The West Indian legend's words boosted Gough's confidence and after a series of good performances, he broke into the national side in 1994 for the 50-over format. Soon after, he made his Test debut the same year as well. Eventually, despite an injury-marred career, he went on to become England's second highest wicket-taker in ODIs while he put his name in the ninth place in the chart for his country's top bowlers in Tests.
Gough's ability with the ball took him just 4 ODIs to get his maiden fifer. Throughout his 159-match ODI career, Gough assured his skipper at least close to one and a half wickets per match on average. He continued to take wickets at regular intervals and finished with 234 wickets which included ten 4-wicket hauls. In the process he became the first English bowler to go past 200 wickets in the ODI format. His best came against a visiting Australia at Lord's in 1997 where he picked up 5 wickets for 40 runs, thereby bagging his second and last fifer in his career. After injuring his shin in the home series against Pakistan, Gough announced his retirement from ODIs.
Gough was off to a brilliant start in Tests. He picked up four wickets in his debut game against New Zealand and backed it up with the bat scoring 65 runs. This made the English media term him as “the new Botham”. However, Gough did not sustain the pressure of becoming a fine all-rounder and lost his batting form after which he was considered as a bowler who can bat a bit. In his Test match career, he is best known for taking the 23rd hat-trick in Test history against Australia at Sydney in 1999. With 229 wickets in his career, including 9 fifers, Gough was forced to hang up his boots from the longest format due to a troublesome knee in 2003.
Gough could not play much of international T20 cricket as the shortest format was picking up its identity only by then and he played just 2 games - debuting against Australia and playing the last against Pakistan in 2006.
After a long stint at Yorkshire, Gough was forced to move to Essex due to family reasons, but he soon returned to his former club in 2007 stating,\"They know I'll run through brick walls for Yorkshire. I've come home.\" He was named the skipper and his captaincy record was off to a sensational start with a number of wins. He registered the best bowling figures for Yorkshire in 11 years in June 2007 picking up 6/47 against Kent. A year later, Darren Gough decided to quit all forms of the game and ended his first-class career with 855 wickets in 248 games.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Inspirer, extrovert, 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, heralding a premature end to his Test career the following summer.
However, he refused to concede his playing days were over and continued in England one-day colours, hanging grimly to a place until he was omitted from the 2007 World Cup squad. Not one for a quiet ending, after three years at Essex he returned to Yorkshire as captain on a two-year deal in 2007.
Gough was not blessed with the height of Curtly Ambrose or Glenn McGrath - and thus lacked a stock ball to match. He developed other means of claiming wickets 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.
A showman like Dominic 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 Player 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.
He injured his knee during a one-day series in New Zealand - 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 2003 World Cup, but somehow willed himself back to fitness in time for the English season that year. And though he was instrumental in England's NatWest Series victory, he was exposed in Test cricket, from which he retired after a heavy Lord's defeat against South Africa.
In January 2004, he parted company with Yorkshire after 15 years to head to Essex. He returned to the international stage later in the year but was largely a shadow of his former self.
Gough's ebullient personality discovered life after cricket, when he won the BBC talent contest Strictly Come Dancing. In 2021 he was appointed Yorkshire's director of cricket amid the fallout from Azeem Rafiq's allegations of institutional racism at the club.