Graham Alan Gooch, OBE (born 23 July 1953) is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation. Gooch was born in Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, in East London. He was educated at Norlington School for Boys, in London. Gooch played first-class cricket regularly between 1973 and 1997. His debut in Test cricket came in 1975 against Australia, and was marked with a \pair\.[1] He scored 6 and 31 in the next game of the series, and was dropped from the side. He was not selected again until 1978. Gooch had a further hiatus in his career when he went on the controversial 1982 rebel tour of South Africa, which resulted in all of the players concerned being banned from Test cricket for three years. Gooch claimed in the film \"The Wilderness Years\" that \others\ decided he \"had no place in England cricket\",
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