He made his debut in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980, and eight years later appeared in the Bicentennial Test in Sydney, along with fellow survivors John Emburey and Mike Gatting.
Mike Gatting, (born 1957), former Middlesex and England cricketer
By the age of 22, he had received high praise from the likes of Mike Gatting and John Stephenson.
Gatting is the son of former Brighton & Hove Albion defender Steve Gatting and nephew of former England cricket captain Mike Gatting.
He toured the West Indies with the England Young Cricketers in 1976 and played in one 'test match' in Trinidad alongside Mike Gatting and David Gower, scoring 41 in the first innings of a game won by England by 22 runs.
He appeared as himself on The Archers on 9 September 2007 at the centre of a misunderstanding between Sid and Jolene Perks during the npower Village Cup Final at Lord's cricket ground.
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Mike Gatting is not the only member of his family to have been a professional sportsman; his brother, Steve Gatting, was a professional footballer for Arsenal and Brighton & Hove Albion.
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Steve's son, Joe, played for Brighton & Hove Albion, having progressed from their youth scheme, however he is now a professional cricket player with Sussex.
In the home team's first innings of 366 he dismissed the first seven batsmen in the order, including Desmond Haynes and Mike Gatting, at a cost of 113 and then scored 76 out of Durham's reply of 232, more than twice as much as any other batsman.
In one of the most controversial incidents in cricketing history, Shakoor Rana notably came face-to-face with Mike Gatting in the finger-wagging incident that stopped the Faisalabad Test in 1987.
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