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Darren Gough’s explosive cameo late on the first day of the fifth Test in 1998/99 and lived right up to his nickname of "Dazzler".
Ashes 2017 . Gabba. Magellan Ashes. Steve smith. Joe root. Ben Stokes arrest.
With Australia cruising at 5-319 following a century from Mark Waugh and 96 from his brother Steve, Dean Headley started the slide by removing Mark.
Then Gough, a combative Yorkshireman, took over.
First he had Ian Healy edging through to 'keeper Warren Hegg. Then a blistering yorker bowled Stuart MacGill middle stump.
"I've been on a hat-trick a few times in Test cricket," Gough said later.
"This time I was more relaxed."
Roared on by a Barmy Army nourished by a long day of drinking under a hot sun, Gough rumbled in and sent down another yorker. It swung away from Colin Miller's blade and crashed into off stump.
"I just bowl it down the other end and if I don't know which way it's going to swing, I don't think the batsman will," Gough said.
"The ball to Miller ended up being probably the best I've bowled all series."
Gough had become the only Englishman to register an Ashes hat-trick in the 20th century - the previous one having been bowled by Jack Hearne at Headingley 100 years before in 1899.
Darren Gough’s explosive cameo late on the first day of the fifth Test in 1998/99 and lived right up to his nickname of "Dazzler".
Ashes 2017 . Gabba. Magellan Ashes. Steve smith. Joe root. Ben Stokes arrest.
With Australia cruising at 5-319 following a century from Mark Waugh and 96 from his brother Steve, Dean Headley started the slide by removing Mark.
Then Gough, a combative Yorkshireman, took over.
First he had Ian Healy edging through to 'keeper Warren Hegg. Then a blistering yorker bowled Stuart MacGill middle stump.
"I've been on a hat-trick a few times in Test cricket," Gough said later.
"This time I was more relaxed."
Roared on by a Barmy Army nourished by a long day of drinking under a hot sun, Gough rumbled in and sent down another yorker. It swung away from Colin Miller's blade and crashed into off stump.
"I just bowl it down the other end and if I don't know which way it's going to swing, I don't think the batsman will," Gough said.
"The ball to Miller ended up being probably the best I've bowled all series."
Gough had become the only Englishman to register an Ashes hat-trick in the 20th century - the previous one having been bowled by Jack Hearne at Headingley 100 years before in 1899.
