page_title: Graham Gooch
section_title: England career performance
hierarchical_section_title: Graham Gooch / England career performance
caption_attribution_description: English: This graph details the Test Match performance of Graham Gooch. It was created by Raven4x4x. The red bars indicate the player's test match innings, while the blue line shows the average of the ten most recent innings at that point. Note that this average cannot be calculated for the first nine innings. The blue dots indicate innings in which Gooch finished not-out. This graph was generated with Microsoft Excel 2002, using data from Cricinfo and Howstat.com.au.
context_page_description: Graham Alan Gooch, OBE, DL 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.
caption: Graham Gooch's Test career performance graph.
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