List of international cricket centuries by Graham Gooch

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A cricket player facing the camera, walking off the pitch with his bat in his right hand, gloves in his left, wiping his mouth with his left hand
Gooch has scored 28 international centuries for England.

Graham Gooch is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches on twenty and eight occasions respectively, in an international career spanning nearly two decades. He is one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation; through a first-class career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057.[1] With 8,900 runs, Gooch was the leading Test run-scorer for England[2] until overtaken by Alastair Cook in 2015.[3] Gooch is one of 25 players in history to have scored over 100 first-class centuries.[4] Having coached at Essex,[5] he was full-time test batting coach for the England cricket team 2012–2014.[6]

Five years after Gooch's Test debut where he made a pair of ducks against Australia at Edgbaston in July 1975,[7] he scored his first Test century with 123 against the West Indies at Lord's in June 1980.[8] Gooch's highest Test score is 333, which he made in the first innings against India in 1990. As of August 2022, this is the third-highest Test score by an Englishman (after Len Hutton's 364 and Wally Hammond's 336 not out), and is the equal thirteenth-highest score in Test history.[9] He went on to score 123 in the second innings of the same Test match,[10] becoming the sixth Englishman at that time to have scored a century in both innings of a Test match, and the first for over 40 years.[11] Gooch is one of fewer than 60 batsmen to carry his bat in a Test innings when, in 1991 against the West Indies, he remained not out at the end of the England innings with a score of 154.[12] He is also one of only seven cricketers in Test history, and the only on a score of 100 or greater, to have been dismissed by handling the ball,[13] when he flicked the ball away from the stumps against Australia in 1993.[14]

Gooch scored 32 on his One Day International (ODI) debut, against the West Indies at Scarborough in August 1976.[15] His first ODI century came in August 1980. Scoring 108, and making an opening partnership of 154 with Geoffrey Boycott, Gooch's innings led England to a 47-run victory over Australia at Edgbaston.[16] Gooch's highest ODI score is 142 which he achieved against Pakistan in November 1987. As of August 2022, this is also the fifteenth-highest score by an Englishman in ODI history.[17]

Key[edit]

Key
Symbol Meaning
* Remained not out
Man of the match
Captained the England cricket team
Balls Balls faced
Pos. Position in the batting order
Inn. The innings of the match
Test The number of the Test match played in that series
S/R Strike rate during the innings
H/A/N Venue was at home (England), away or neutral
Date Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches
Lost The match was lost by England.
Won The match was won by England.
Drawn The match was drawn.

Test cricket centuries[edit]

List of Test centuries scored by Graham Gooch
No. Score Against Pos. Inn. Test Venue H/A/N Date Result Ref
1 123  West Indies 1 1 2/5 Lord's Cricket Ground, London Home 19 June 1980 Drawn [8]
2 116  West Indies 1 4 3/5 Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados Away 13 March 1981 Lost [18]
3 153  West Indies 1 1 5/5 Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica Away 10 April 1981 Drawn [19]
4 127  India 1 2 5/6 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Away 13 January 1982 Drawn [20]
5 † 196  Australia 1 1 6/6 Kennington Oval, London Home 29 August 1985 Won [21]
6 114  India 1 1 1/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, London Home 5 June 1986 Lost [22]
7 † 183  New Zealand 1 3 1/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, London Home 24 July 1986 Drawn [23]
8 146  West Indies 1 3 1/5 Trent Bridge, Nottingham Home 2 June 1988 Drawn [24]
9 ‡ 154  New Zealand 1 1 3/3 Edgbaston, Birmingham Home 5 July 1990 Won [25]
10 †‡ 333  India 1 1 1/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, London Home 26 July 1990 Won [10]
11 †‡ 123  India 1 3 1/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, London Home 26 July 1990 Won [10]
12 ‡ 116  India 1 1 2/3 Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester Home 9 August 1990 Drawn [26]
13 †‡ 117  Australia 1 4 4/5 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Away 25 January 1991 Drawn [27]
14 †‡ 154*  West Indies 1 3 1/5 Headingley, Leeds Home 6 June 1991 Won [28]
15 ‡ 174  Sri Lanka 1 3 1/1 Lord's Cricket Ground, London Home 22 August 1991 Won [29]
16 †‡ 114  New Zealand 1 3 2/3 Eden Park, Auckland Away 30 January 1992 Won [30]
17 †‡ 135  Pakistan 1 2 4/5 Headingley, Leeds Home 23 July 1992 Won [31]
18 ‡ 133  Australia 1 4 1/6 Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester Home 3 June 1993 Lost [32]
19 ‡ 120  Australia 5 3 3/6 Trent Bridge, Nottingham Home 1 July 1993 Drawn [33]
20 † 210  New Zealand 3 2 1/3 Trent Bridge, Nottingham Home 2 June 1994 Won [34]

One Day International centuries[edit]

List of ODI centuries scored by Graham Gooch
No. Score Balls Against Pos. Inn. S/R Venue H/A/N Date Result Ref
1 † 108 113  Australia 1 1 95.57 Edgbaston, Birmingham Home 22 August 1980 Won [16]
2 115 159  Australia 1 1 72.32 Edgbaston, Birmingham Home 1 June 1985 Lost [35]
3 117* 164  Australia 1 2 71.34 Lord's, London Home 3 June 1985 Won [36]
4 † 129* 118  West Indies 1 2 109.32 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Away 4 March 1986 Won [37]
5 † 115 136  India 1 1 84.55 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Away 5 November 1987 Won [38]
6 † 142 134  Pakistan 1 1 105.97 National Stadium, Karachi Away 20 November 1987 Won [39]
7 136 162  Australia 1 1 83.95 Lord's, London Home 29 May 1989 Lost [40]
8 ‡ 112* 152  New Zealand 1 2 73.68 Kennington Oval, London Home 25 May 1990 Won [41]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Records / Combined First-class, List A and Twenty20 / Batting records / Most runs in career". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  2. ^ "India v England: Alastair Cook 'can match Sachin Tendulkar'". BBC Sport. 10 December 2012. Archived from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Alastair Cook: Captain becomes England's leading Test run scorer". BBC Sport. 30 May 2015. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Most centuries in first-class cricket". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  5. ^ Hoult, Nick (6 December 2011). "Graham Gooch stands down as Essex batting coach to concentrate on England". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Gooch cut from England batting coach role". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 8 September 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Australia tour of England, 1975 / The Ashes – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  8. ^ a b "West Indies tour of England, 1980 / The Wisden Trophy – 2nd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  9. ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  10. ^ a b c "India tour of England, 1990 – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  11. ^ "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Hundred in each innings of a match". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  12. ^ "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Carrying bat through a completed innings". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  13. ^ "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Unusual dismissals". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2 March 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  14. ^ "Ways of getting out: handled the ball". BBC Sport. 26 August 2005. Archived from the original on 26 April 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  15. ^ "West Indies tour of England, 1976 / Prudential Trophy – 1st ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 31 December 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  16. ^ a b "Australia tour of England, 1980 / Prudential Trophy – 2nd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  17. ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  18. ^ "England tour of West Indies, 1980/81 – Wisden Trophy – 3rd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  19. ^ "England tour of West Indies, 1980/81 – Wisden Trophy – 5th Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  20. ^ "England tour of India, 1981/82 – 5th Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  21. ^ "Australia tour of England, 1985 – The Ashes – 6th Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  22. ^ "India tour of England, 1986 – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  23. ^ "New Zealand tour of England, 1986 – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  24. ^ "West Indies tour of England, 1988 – Wisden Trophy – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 12 March 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  25. ^ "New Zealand tour of England, 1990 – 3rd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  26. ^ "India tour of England, 1990 – 2nd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  27. ^ "England tour of Australia, 1990/91 – The Ashes – 4th Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  28. ^ "West Indies tour of England, 1991 – Wisden Trophy – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  29. ^ "Sri Lanka tour of England, 1991 – Only Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  30. ^ "England tour of New Zealand, 1991/92 – 2nd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  31. ^ "Pakistan tour of England, 1992 – 4th Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  32. ^ "Australia tour of England and Ireland, 1993 – The Ashes – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  33. ^ "Australia tour of England and Ireland, 1993 – The Ashes – 3rd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  34. ^ "New Zealand tour of England, 1994 – 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  35. ^ "Australia tour of England, 1985 – Texaco Trophy – 2nd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  36. ^ "Australia tour of England, 1985 – Texaco Trophy – 3rd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  37. ^ "England tour of West Indies, 1985/86 – England in West Indies ODI series – 2nd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  38. ^ "Reliance World Cup, 1987/88 – second semi-final". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  39. ^ "England tour of Pakistan, 1987/88 – 2nd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 23 December 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  40. ^ "Australia tour of England, Scotland, Netherlands and Denmark, 1989 – Texaco Trophy – 3rd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 1 January 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  41. ^ "New Zealand tour of England, 1990 – Texaco Trophy – 2nd ODI". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.