10 players who ended their career with an Ashes series

#9 Graham Gooch (1995)

Graham Gooch

For a cricketer who scored a plethora of runs in all forms of the games he played in, Graham Gooch had a rather sedate Ashes record. He is one of those rare England cricketers who debuted and played his last game in the Ashes.

He started with a pair on debut against in the 1975 Ashes and a string of low scores continued against Australia. It was only his 15th Ashes innings, he managed to score a fifty but inconsistency continued till the 1985 Ashes. But since that Ashes, he scored more than 400 runs in every Ashes that he played (except his last series) – including 673 in the 1993 edition.

He could never score big in the Ashes and it was maybe the pressure of the big stage which got the better of him. In a two-decade long career, he was a part of 10 Ashes series and played 42 Tests scoring 2632 runs at an average of 33.32 – a record he would like to forget.