By Guy Williams

WITH only 13 days to go before the start of the Ashes, Darren Gough, can’t contain his excitement. The Yorkshire and Essex seamer relished his scraps against Australia – and there were plenty of them! Of his 58 Tests for England between 1994 and 2003 (taking 229 wickets at 28.40), 17 were in an Ashes series, during which he took a notable 74 wickets. And, naturally, he enjoyed several memorable moments along the way including a sensational hat-trick at Sydney in 1998 – the first by an English bowler in the Ashes in 100 years – his 6-49 ...