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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Mike gatting - Caught on Camera

Ben Stokes has been extraordinary for English cricket, it should cut him some slack

The sport’s misguided morals mean England’s Test captain has been humbled for a meaningless infraction and kept off the stage for which he was made

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody likes to be belittled’: how New Zealand’s ‘Ilford seconds’ made history in 1986

Jeremy Coney’s tourists 40 years ago lacked the resources and professionalism of their opponents but got under England’s skin to claim a famous series win

The Guardian - UK

‘Acceptance of mediocrity’: Middlesex gaze south enviously with golden years long gone

With their last title a decade ago, young players moving on and coach churn, Middlesex are no longer even the most famous team that call Lord’s home

The Guardian - UK

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Middlesex ‘drifting towards irrelevance’: Gatting leads revolt against club leadership

A group of past Middlesex players led by the former England captain Mike Gatting has delivered a withering assessment of the county’s leadership

The Guardian - UK

Sydney has a history of hosting Ashes comebacks – and launching dynasties

Classic New Year’s Tests offer clues for how England and Australia can end this series on their terms at the SCG and set up for the next

The Guardian - AU

Winter is coming: England’s cricketers fly out for long tour that will decide Ashes and World Cup

Four decades ago Mike Gatting lamented 30-game schedule and while improvements were made, players will be weary of gruelling season ahead

The Guardian - UK

When hands fail and history alters: cricket’s notorious dropped catches

England’s most renowned butterfingered culprits share the lingering regret that came from a single moment

The Guardian - UK

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‘The bloke who hit the six’: when Warwickshire won the 1989 NatWest Trophy

It is 35 years since the unlikely, bespectacled duo of Asif Din and Neil Smith held off Middlesex in a thrilling finish to a low-scoring Lord’s final

The Guardian - UK

Raman Subba Row obituary

England batsman and influential administrator who helped bring about a lasting shift in cricket’s power balance

The Guardian - UK

Test cricket needed India’s ‘fantastic’ Jaiswal and England’s Bazball

Former England captain Mike Gatting heaps praise on India and England’s approach ahead of fourth Test in Ranchi.

Al Jazeera

India vs England, 2nd Test: Can Kuldeep Yadav ‘reverse’ the trend?

With England's batters catching the hosts off-guard with their reverse sweeps against left-arm finger spin, the 'Chinaman' bowler's wrist spin could come to India's rescue

The Times of India

‘Fun, engaging, quick’: indoor cricket could be due for a global revival

The Guardian - UK

Memories of Wankhede: When Gooch & Co. swept India out

In the Mumbai semifinal of the 1987 World Cup, favourites India lost to England

The Times of India

Nabi’s nomadic journey from beating Gatting to historic win over England

Veteran has beaten 43 different countries since first being noticed flaying an MCC side to all corners in Mumbai in 2006

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Ashes diary: northern mayors call out ECB as Mike Gatting relives that ball

Andy Burnham and Tracy Brabin call on ECB to reconsider decision not to allocate 2027 Ashes Tests to northern grounds as former England captain braves potential ignominy

The Guardian - UK

Ashes diary: Stokes gets his revenge and Old Trafford remembers 1993

The England captain didn’t take kindly to a painful blow to the shin and was also hoping to do better than Graham Gooch in 1993

The Independent UK

A closer look at Old Trafford’s Ashes history ahead of fourth Test

Old Trafford Ashes Tests have thrown up plenty of magical moments.

The Hindu

MCC recommends extra funding for Test cricket and women’s game, significant reduction in ODIs after 2027

MCC committee proposes extra funding for Test cricket, reduction in ODIs after 2027 World Cup, suggests creating a ringfenced ICC Strategic Fund to strengthen women’s cricket, calls on ICC to ensure equitable schedule of matches for all member countries post 2027. Urges global game to reset, focus on powerful few…

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The Times of India

Reduce ODIs post 2027 World Cup: MCC suggests to ICC

MUMBAI: At a time when the International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to hold a key meeting of its Chief Executives' Committee in Durban on Wednesday to perhaps chalk out the men’s Future Tours Programme (FTP) from 2028 onwards, the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club's World Cricket committee (WCC) has recommended…

The Guardian - UK

Ashes omens: what Peter Pan, Eurovision and Taggart tell us about the cricket

Could the first Ashes Test venue hinder England’s prospects or will a Disney remake of Peter Pan transport Australia’s hopes to never-never land?

The Independent UK

Out of nowhere: Michael Atherton remembers Shane Warne’s ball of the century

Michael Atherton remembers Shane Warne’s ball of the century 30 years on

The Guardian - UK

Thirty years on, Shane Warne’s ball of the century echoes far beyond cricket

Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of Mike Gatting’s Ashes dismissal, a sporting moment quoted in songs, poems and Hansard

The New Daily

Three decades on, Warne’s Gatting ball is still the one

Sunday marks 30 years since cricket's most famous delivery, and Shane Warne's Gatting ball is still the one.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: imagining what comes next for Succession’s dislikable characters

A note-perfect finale, Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and my role in an England cricketing hero’s downfall

The Times of India

MCC wants non-striker being run out by the bowler normalised at all age-group levels

NEW DELHI: The custodians of the laws of the game, The World Cricket Committee of the MCC, want to see the non-striker being run out by the bowler normalised at all age-group levels besides calling for "calm" on the contentious subject.

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