5 great England captains who never won an Ashes in Australia

#4 Graham Gooch

Graham Gooch

Graham Gooch scored 67,057 runs in first-class and List A cricket combined, including a staggering 172 centuries.

But, for some reason, he could never perform in big pressure games like the Ashes. He failed to win a single game in the Ashes as captain, out of the eight that he played.

The Ashes in 1990-91 Down Under was his first Ashes as captain. He had already captained England for about three years but England crashed to a 2-0 defeat.

Gooch's performances dipped along with England’s performance in the early 1990s, leading to him stepping down from captaincy and eventually retiring in 1995.