Players / Mike Gatting

'The basic way of playing spin is to rotate the strike'

Nov 12, 2012: Mike Gatting, Graham Thorpe and Murali Kartik on how England need to bat against the Indian spinners

Graham Dilley 1959-2011

Dilley 'always had a smile' - Gatting

Oct 5, 2011: Mike Gatting, the former England captain, has remembered Graham Dilley, who died on Wednesday at the age of 52, as a cricketer who "always had a smile" when he played the game

England v Netherlands, Group B, World Cup 2011, Nagpur

England aim to prove their subcontinent credentials

Feb 20, 2011: Matt Prior might have been surprised to get a late call-up to England's World Cup squad, but is now ready to play a new role

1990

Rebels without a cause

Feb 13, 2010: Twenty years ago this week Nelson Mandela was released from prison at the same time that South Africa was hosting one of cricket's most infamous tours

No. 23

The ball of the century

May 24, 2009: Pitch outside leg, take off stump, easy as pie

Run, run, run

May 28, 2008: Batsmen who have been let down by their - or others' - running

Mike Gatting

'You can't learn to play spin overnight'

Mar 13, 2008: Slow bowlers have been England's bugbear for long. Mike Gatting, among the country's best players of spin, talks about what Vaughan and Co need to be doing

Schofield Report recommendations

Hussain slams ECB jobs-for-the-boys approach

Oct 4, 2007: Nasser Hussain, the former England captain turned TV commentator, has criticised the appointment of Hugh Morris and Mike Gatting as the ECB's new managing directors

Schofield Report recommendations

Gatting and Morris handed England roles

Oct 2, 2007: Hugh Morris and Mike Gatting are both in line for major new roles at the England & Wales Cricket Board, as part of the wide-ranging managerial restructure as recommended in the recent Schofield Report

1977

Brearley's brilliant declaration

Jun 2, 2007: Martin Williamson on an outstanding piece of captaincy from Mike Brearley

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Signing off with a whimper

Apr 26, 2007: Brian Lara's final innings ended in anticlimax, but he is not alone in not bowing out in fairytale fashion. Here are 11 other players who have departed with a whimper rather than a bang

Great Moments

One false shot, and a World Cup lost

Feb 26, 2007: Mike Gatting's impetuous reverse-sweep cost England more than a wicket in the 1987 final

The Lord's Taverners

New cricket centre opens in London

Feb 22, 2007: A new state-of-the-art cricketing facility has been opened in the heart of urban London, thanks to funding from Westminster City Council, The Lord's Taverners and further funding worth £1m from the UK's largest sports charity, the Football Foundatio

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Fat bats and roly bowlers

Feb 22, 2007: Cricinfo has set out to demonstrate with this list of (mostly) talented and well-rounded cricketers

December 2006

Eleven cricketing sex scandals

Dec 14, 2006: And you thought footballers were bad... Mark van Dijk rummages through the tabloids to reveal cricket's naughtiest away games

December 2006

On top down under

Dec 8, 2006: Simon Lister interviews the key figures behind England's successful tour of Australia, 1986-87

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Temper, temper

Sep 19, 2006: In the light of Mark Vermeulen's tantrum playing the the Lancashire League, Martin Williamson looks at 11 other instances where players or officials have spat the dummy

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Disappearing acts

Sep 5, 2006: Steve Pittard on cricketers who went missing in action

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Dangerous games

May 2, 2006: One of the enduring images of watching South Africa of late has been the frequency with which Makhaya Ntini has struck batsmen on the head. Here, Cricinfo picks out 11 moments where tempers spilled over off the field&

1986

Dropping the pilot ... from a great height

Apr 8, 2006: At the start of the 1986 season David Gower was captain of England, but he was hanging on by his fingernails