#mike gatting

2 incidents tagged

Shane Warne's Ball of the Century — Mike Gatting, Old Trafford 1993

England vs Australia

1993-06-04

Shane Warne's first ball in Ashes cricket pitched outside leg stump and spun 18 inches to hit the top of Mike Gatting's off stump — the most famous single delivery in cricket history, announcing to the world that leg-spin was not dead.

#shane-warne#ball-of-the-century#mike-gatting

🥊Explosive

Marshall Shatters Gatting's Nose — Headingley 1984

England vs West Indies

2 August 1984

Malcolm Marshall broke Mike Gatting's nose with a sharply rising bouncer at Headingley in 1984 — while bowling with a broken thumb in a plaster cast. Blood poured from Gatting's shattered nose as he retired hurt. Marshall refused to leave the field and came back to take wickets. One of Test cricket's most viscerally brutal moments.

#malcolm marshall#mike gatting#broken nose