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Essex’s Greatest XI

Derek Pringle selects 12 names to comprise the greatest team from the club’s rich and varied first-class history

1. GRAHAM GOOCH
391 matches (in first-class matches for Essex – 1973-97), 30,701 runs at 51.77, 94 centuries; 200 wickets at 32.70, 3 five-wicket hauls
No one gave more to Essex in my time than Graham Gooch. He treated Essex and England equally, affording equivalent space in his mind to both. He felt he owed Essex for giving him his break and he never lost that sense of responsibility.
Picking a single century from the 94 he made for Essex is nigh-on impossible, as so many were v...

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