NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Darren Gough

Darren Gough (born September 18, 1970, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. He was arguably England's best pace bowler since Bob Willis. Darren has taken 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's eighth most successful wicket taker. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Statistics Population: 72,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE3406 Administration District: Barnsley Metropolitan county: South Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: South Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: South Yorkshire Police Ambulance service: Yorkshire Post office... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 kmÂ² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team which nominally represents England and Wales, but is a de facto United Kingdom team. ... Robert (Bob) George Dylan Willis (born in Sunderland 30 May 1949) is a former English cricketer who played for Surrey, Warwickshire, Northern Transvaal and England. ...

Gough is a right arm fast medium bowler and right handed batsman. 5' 11" and broad in beam, he achieves his pace from a good approach to the wicket and a beautiful, leaping sideways-on action, achieving what is often described as "skiddy" fast bowling. Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ... Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ...

He played county cricket for Yorkshire for 15 years before moving to Essex in 2004 due mainly to family reasons. In the UK, County cricket is the domestic form of the sport of cricket that is considered to be first-class cricket. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club are a county cricket club based at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground, Leeds. ... Essex County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at the County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford, though with smaller grounds elsewhere. ...

He was first selected for the England cricket team in 1994, playing both Test and one-day international cricket. He made an impact as a bowler and as a tail-end batsman, and the media, as is usual with practically any aggressive England all-rounder, quickly dubbed him the "new Botham". Like most such pretenders to that throne, he did not fully ascend to such lofty heights, but his continued presence in the England team became a vital one in both personality and play. Memorable highlights of his Test career included taking the 23rd hat-trick in Test cricket against Australia at Sydney in 1999. His only first class century came against Warwickshire in 1996 at Headingley. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1312x1526, 974 KB)Darren Gough bowling for Essex against Cambridge UCCE, at Fenners cricket ground in Cambridge, 10 April 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1312x1526, 974 KB)Darren Gough bowling for Essex against Cambridge UCCE, at Fenners cricket ground in Cambridge, 10 April 2005. ... Cambridge University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... Ian Terence Botham OBE, (born November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire) (nicknamed Beefy) was one of Englands best-ever cricketers and one of the best all-round cricketers of all time. ... Australian Fred Spofforth dismissed three English batsmen with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia on 2 January 1879 to take the first hat-trick in Test cricket in only the third Test match. ... In sports, a hat-trick (more often rendered in North America as hat trick, without the hyphen) is associated with achieving something in a group of three. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...

He retired from Test cricket in 2003 after a knee injury threatened to end his career, having taken 229 wickets with a bowling average of 28.39. He has continued playing one-day international cricket, and became the first Englishman to take 200 wickets in one-day cricket in September 2004. In January 2005, he played for the World XI in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal one-day international versus the Asian XI. Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ... September 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Events Deaths in September â€¢ 27 Tsai Wan-lin â€¢ 24 FranÃ§oise Sagan â€¢ 20 Brian Clough â€¢ 18 Russ Meyer â€¢ 15 Johnny Ramone â€¢ 12 Fred Ebb â€¢ 11 Peter VII of Alexandria â€¢ 8... The World Cricket Tsunami Appeal is an effort by the International Cricket Council to raise funds to support the humanitarian relief efforts following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004. ...

Gough asked not to be considered for selection for England's tour of Pakistan in October–December 2005 so that he could spend more time with his family. Selectors were content with his decision until it was discovered that he had signed up to take part in the BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing, which he subsequently won with his dancing partner Lilia Kopylova. Gough noted that this would keep him fit whilst allowing him to spend the winter with his family and, visibly at least, had the support of his England colleagues. He still harbours ambitions to play in the 2007 World Cup, despite warnings from selectors that he may now have difficulty in regaining his spot in the one-day team. Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, shown on BBC One based on ballroom dancing. ... Lilia Kopylova is a professional dancer. ... The 2007 Cricket World Cup will be hosted by the West Indies from March 11 to April 28, 2007. ...

He was subsequently omitted from the ODI party to tour India in February and March 2006, prompting renewed speculation that his career was at an end. However, he was named as a member of the ODI squad to play Pakistan in August 2006, playing two ODIs and one Twenty20 International before a shin injury forced him to withdraw from the team. Cricket writer Tim de Lisle claimed in a column for Cricinfo that after this, "[Gough's] international career [was] all but over".^[1]

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