DARREN Gough would rather England had won the Ashes than earn Test history with his brilliant hat-trick here. Typically, England's ebullient fast bowler put his team before his thrilling achievement with the first Ashes hat-trick by an Englishman in 100 years. Gough said afterwards: "I'd happily swap all this for England getting back those Ashes." In a spectacular second new ball burst, Yorkshire's favourite cricketing son pulled off every English bowler's dream - taking a hat- trick against the Aussies. His sense of timing couldn't have been better as no other Englishman has managed this feat in this century and there won't be another Ashes Test until the Year 2001. He pulled it off with the fourth, fifth and sixth balls of his 17th over. His victims were Ian Healy, Stuart MacGill and Colin Miller. First, he had Australia's wicket keeper caught behind and the next two balls were absolute corkers. The first was a yorker that ripped out MacGill's middle stump, the second, described by Gough as his "ball of the series", smashed down Miller's off-stump. The "Barmy Army" went mad, singing, chanting, dancing and making fun of the Australian supporters. They managed to drown the noise of 50000 rowdy Aussie fans who had been silenced for once by Gough's sensational bowling barrage. Ironically, the last England bowler to bag a Test hat-trick was the Sunday Mirror's star cricketing columnist Dominic Cork who was right there watching him from the dressing room. Twelfth man Cork <b>...</b>
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