Talk:Graham Gooch

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The material describing the rebel tour of South Africa seems to conflate two different English rebel tours. Gooch was a member of the 1981 rebel tour party. The decription of the protests and the unbanning of the ANC took place during (and in response to) a subsequent rebel tour in 1988, captained by Mike Gatting. Gooch was not a member of this rebel touring party. 195.152.219.3 14:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

As noted above, the material relating to the rebel tours of SA is hopelessly factually mangled, plus it is obviously not NPOV. I have therefore removed most of it. Scholiwiki 16:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

In dead matches he could sometimes be seen doing impressions of fellow professionals bowling styles.

Isn't it Gooch who is listed in one of Bill Frindall's books of records as "no-balled whilst impersonating J. E. Emburey" in a Test match? Loganberry (Talk) 9 July 2005 02:19 (UTC)

[1] was the match

I think something should be put in about the spat with Gower. It is ironic that Gooch passed Gower as England's top run scorer, given that he was instrumental in ending Gower's career prematurely. Read Matthew Engel in 1993 and Peter Hayter in 1994 Wisdens for the contemporary strength of feeling in favour of Gower and against Gooch for those actions.

Added some detail on Gooch's career with Essex, including a number of county batting records he holds.