[6] In 2016, she completed a Master of Arts in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford,[4] and returned to Hamburg, where she had already spent a year abroad during her tertiary studies.
[12] The following season, in August 2016, Gough played a similarly prominent role in a 6-nations European Women's T20 tournament in Herning, Denmark.
Against Norway, in Germany's second match, Gough smashed a rapid 104* to guide the team to its then highest ever WT20 total of 184, and then took two wickets for 14 runs in 3.1 overs.
In Germany's second of two matches against Belgium, played on 3 August 2017, she and Anuradha Doddaballapur combined for an unbroken partnership of 85 for the fifth wicket, and also shared the top scoring honours with 42* apiece.
In the second match between Germany and France, played on 4 August 2017, she made 44*, and shared with Deepika Anil in an unbroken partnership of 121 for the fourth wicket.
[1][14] The following month, she was selected in that year's ICC Women's Global Development Squad, which played six Twenty20 matches on a tour of England.
[15] On 4 February 2020, in the first WT20I match of a bilateral series between Germany and Oman at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium, Muscat, Gough shared in an unbroken partnership of 158 with Janet Ronalds, during which both batters scored 71*.
The following day, in the second match of the series, she scored 66*, and shared with Ronalds in an unbroken first wicket partnership of 191, to power Germany to its highest ever WT20I total of 191/0.
[23] In Germany's next bilateral series, against France at the Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld, in July 2021, Gough played in all five matches, and scored the most runs, with an aggregate of 95 at an average of 47.50.
[25] The following month, at the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier, Gough top scored for Germany, both overall,[26] and in the team's matches against Ireland[27] and the Netherlands.