Without ego, each had a waspish sense of humour, which in Gooch’s case was often at the expense of Mike Gatting. Remarking on the ‘Ball of the Century’, Shane Warne’s first in an Ashes contest which cleaned up a bemused Fat Gatt at Old Trafford in 1993, Gooch said, ‘If it had been a cheese roll it would have never got past him.’
