Graham Gooch, England’s leading test run scorer, scored 8,900 runs in his career. At 22 yards a run, that is 111.25 miles – which, as it happens, is the distance from Edgbaston in Birmingham to The Oval in London.

This Ashes summer, I will be making this walk to raise funds for The Lords Taverners while my fellow walkers (Grahame, Nick and Graham) are raising funds for the Amyloidosis Research Fund at UCL. 

We are doing this in memory of our dear friend, and avid cricket lover, Steve Baldwin, who sadly passed away in 2011 after contracting the rare disease of Amyloidosis. We are aiming to finish our walk on the morning of Wednesday 21st August – just in time for the start of the final Ashes test match at The Oval.

None of us are as young as we were, but we hope to complete this challenge in 7 days or so, sporting pristine cricket whites and magnificent Gooch style moustache’s.

Every day we will be marking the career of each and every England test player as we pass their run aggregate on the way to completing the “full Goochie”.

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