News about Mike Gatting

The Gabba will not host an Ashes series-opener in Australia for the first time in more than four decades after Cricket Australia confirmed Perth as the venue for the first test of the 2025-26 series on Wednesday. The Brisbane ground will instead host its first day-night Ashes clash from Dec. 4-8 before the five-test series between holders Australia and England moves to Adelaide Oval (Dec. 17-21), the Melbourne Cricket Ground (Dec. 26-30) and the Sydney Cricket Ground (Jan. 4-8). The last time an Ashes in Australia started away from the Gabba was in 1982 when the historic foes drew at the WACA in Perth.

Kyrgyzstan is compensated by the fact that it has a stunning landscape. There are forests of walnut and fir, deserts, meadows, mountains and lots of water, in the form of alpine lakes. Lake Issyk-Kul is the largest lake in Kyrgyzstan and the second-largest mountain lake in the world, after Lake Titicaca in South America. It is known as the 'Pearl' of Kyrgyzstan and a ­stunning alpine landscape surrounds it. Intrepid travellers to the region can enjoy watersports, hiking, horse riding and visiting the old Soviet bath houses and sanatoriums. Its crystal clear water is slightly saline, so it doesn't freeze in winter and can reach a balmy 24 degrees in summer. The most distant point from an ocean, known as the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility, is in China. It is in the Gurbantunggut Desert, in the Xinjiang region near the border with Kazakhstan, 1,645 miles from the nearest coastline.

Owen changed attitudes and spread joy in his brief but eventful life. Not only for the beautiful Angela, for whom life hasn't always been smooth, but thousands of others. He has certainly accomplished more in his life than in death. He was wounded in a car crash and treated for months before it was all too much, and he set a legal precedent that might help thousands of other dogs and their owners with vet bills and kinder care by the courts. Because dogs have now been accepted in an English court, not just as property or chattels, but also beloved family members, which may change the way doggy compensation is calculated.

AADAM PATEL AT OLD TRAFFORD: Shane Warne, who famously bowled him at Old Trafford in 1993, would have 'loved' seeing this Ashes series on the 30th anniversary of the 'Ball of the Century,' according to former England captain Mike Gatting. "Warney would have adored this English brand of cricket." He was all about optimism and seeing all these reverse ramps and scoops. Honestly, he would have grinked if a player tried it against him and then found a way to get him out.' Gatting told Mail Sport at Old Trafford, he thrived on the challenge.

Marnus Labuschagne's head slumped as the big screen announced his fate. He hopped into the dressing room with the agility of an oil tanker, and then trudged off, with the hull apparently bouncing along the seabed. No one leaves the field more disconsolate than Labuschagne, and no one seems to be upset over their dismissal. It was not any consolation that he had just returned from his first half-century of the summer. In some ways, it actually made life miserable. Moeen Ali's next ball was a standard off-break. It was tossed a touch and turned a bit, but Shane Warne's surprise for Mike Gatting on the 30th anniversary of his discovery here was no Ball of the Century.

Mike Gatting sees the ball as well as he did 30 years ago. The fizz came out of Shane Warne's right hand's nascent, late drift as it veers wide of leg stump like a sedan attempting to avoid a stray cat. The explosion of turn beyond Gatting's front pad and the edge of his bat brought him right to the top of the stump. Not that Gatting can recall the memories these days. YouTube alone has more than a million views, not to mention the numerous repeats on Sky Sports. They call it the Ball of the Century. Warne's first delivery in the Ashes just before lunch on the second day of the first Test at Old Trafford in 1993. Shane Warne was bowled by Mike Gatting for four wickets.

Shane Warne stepped up to play his first Test cricket three years ago. It's a delivery that still defies logic three decades after Mike Gatting was left aghast, wondering how this blonde-haired stranger from Melbourne could conjure up a piece of cricketing magic. Warne continued to take another 707 Test wickets in a career that has redefined how followers and young stars think about spinners, and Gatting's story was widely distributed online over a year ago following his untimely death, 52 years old. But what happened to the supporting cast of that 1993 Test match at Old Trafford? On the 30th anniversary of the ball of the century, Daily Mail Australia gives the inside scoop.

Allan Border (pictured left) wishes Australia to have a stronger edge on the field, particularly Steve Smith (pictured right) ahead of his Ashes series against England, which starts on June 16. On the 1989 tour of the United Kingdom, former Australian captain Border was known for his ruthless nature and blanked the England players.

After winning the Norm Smith Medal as the best on ground in the 1993 grand final, the renowned Bomber is no stranger to performing in front of huge crowds. But at the Dreamtime at the G game, he'll be thrilling the fans with a microphone in his hand rather than a football.

Dane van Niekerk, the cricket legend, has taken a scathing shot at Cricket South Africa (CSA), saying she'didn't eat' and was 'killing herself for six weeks' in order to cap the country's home World Cup. Since being controversially barred from the T20 World Cup in February, the 29-year-old all-rounder, who has a stellar resume on international stage and has gained titles in the WBBL and the United Kingdom, was effectively forced into retirement. She has argued that CSA ignored her medical problems and that her dismissal was motivated by her personal qualities, not by on-field results.

RICHARD GIBSON: Some of the finest players of the game began their Test careers in Karachi: Sachin Tendulkar, a Pakistani king of reverse swing, and Mike Gatting, one of the few English captains to win in Australia, started by scoring more times and hitting more hundreds than anyone else. Whatever Rehan Ahmed does achieve after his initial stay at the National Stadium, he will also be guaranteed a spot in the history books. He was ranked 710th in the United Kingdom on yesterday, just 126 days after his 18th birthday. After an unfortunate start, Ollie Pope made Saud Shakeel the first international victim of his leg spin, and after replays confirmed his suspicions, he returned to salute his father Naeem in the crowd.

LAWRENCE BOOTH IN MULTAN, PAKISTAN: Multan is located in Multan, one of Pakistan's four provinces, but it is also used to staging international matches again. The three ODIs it hosted against the West Indies in June were the first ODIs to have been played here for 14 years. In the meantime, England is about to begin their first Test since November 2006. And by the tense recent demands of Pakistan's cricket circuit, it seems that the road less traveled. To get a feel of the excitement, we escort from our hotel in the city's center to Multan Cricket Stadium, 40 minutes on a good day. Passers-by peek through our car windows before turning away in mild surprise when they discover we are not Jimmy Anderson or Ben Stokes. The streets are swarms of dust, which blends with the morning fog and smog to create a hazy layer that never fully lifts. It is not a destination for the asthma sufferer.