Graham Gooch and David Gower (England)
David Gower (L), Graham Gooch (R)
On the field they complemented each other perfectly, becoming one of England’s most productive non-opening partnerships, but off the field the ideological differences between Gooch and Gower were always going to lead to problems. They came to a head during the Ashes tour of 1990-91, most notably when Gower was fined for the Tiger Moth incident. He was dropped but returned briefly in 1992. The same problems remained however: one said tomayto, the other tomahto, and Gooch decided to call the whole thing off.