In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

* Mike Gatting, an English cricketer

On the Monday morning 500 – 1 odds began to look somewhat more ungenerous as first Brearley, then David Gower and Mike Gatting all fell cheaply reducing England to 41 for 4.

However, leg spin has again become popular with cricket fans and a successful part of cricket teams, driven largely by the success of Shane Warne, beginning with his spectacular Ball of the Century to Mike Gatting in 1993.

* Mike Gatting appeared as himself in September 2007 at the centre of a misunderstanding between Sid and Jolene Perks during the npower Village Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground.

* England cricketer Mike Gatting went to Fryent Primary School

* June 4-Shane Warne bowls the so-called " Ball of the Century " to Mike Gatting in the first Test at Old Trafford

" After the chaos of 1988-the Summer of Four Captains he wanted the tough Mike Gatting as captain, but was vetoed by Ossie Wheatley and his status was immediately undermined.

Michael " Mike " William Gatting OBE ( born 6 June 1957 in Kingsbury, England ) is a former English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex ( 1975 – 1998 ; captain 1983 – 1997 ) and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test matches between 1986 and 1988.

* Mike Gatting (" Gat ") ( 2000 – 2007 )

* 1993 – Shane Warne's " Ball of the Century " to Mike Gatting.

The most famous example of a reverse sweep backfiring was in the case of Mike Gatting of England against Allan Border of Australia in the 1987 Cricket World Cup final.

Middlesex's most successful period coincided with the captaincies of Mike Brearley and Mike Gatting from 1971 to 1997.

In 1988 Rothley was involved in a cricketing controversy, when then-captain Mike Gatting was accused by The Sun and Today newspapers of improprieties with a barmaid at the Rothley Court Hotel.

Amongst those who have played there are cricketers Andrew Flintoff, Imran Khan, Mike Gatting, Michael Atherton, Mark Ramprakash, Derek Randall, and Mike Brearley and entertainment figures such as Peter O ' Toole, Tim Rice, and Rory Bremner.

However, he also received support from respected players, including Somerset captain Justin Langer, Alec Stewart, Mike Gatting, and Bob Woolmer.

In the semi-finals against England his accurate seam bowling fetched him the top-order wickets of David Gower and Mike Gatting.

In 1989 / 90 Wessels also played for South Africa against a rebel English team captained by Mike Gatting.

Mike Gatting was sacked after the first Test match against the West Indies and Emburey was appointed for two matches, both of which were lost.

Only Mike Gatting passed fifty, and Willis was dismissed for a first-ball duck.

But the ground is most famous for the confrontation between Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana during England's 1987-88 tour, which led to a day being lost during the match and some long-lasting bad feeling between the teams.

Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

Sergeant Mike Donaldson, Congressional Medal of Honor soldier, was one of them.

`` Smilin' Mike '' was the sobriquet Washington gave him.

But Mike Deegan was boiling mad now.

Mike Deegan was standing beside it, facing the field.

Mike Deegan was sitting on the bench, watching.

Mike was slow getting into the box this time.

After the game, Phil was taking off his sweatshirt in the dressing room when Mike Deegan came in.

Jubal said that his night-sight probably came from the conditions in which he had grown up, and Mike grokked this was true but grokked that there was more to it ; ;

Mike was of legal age and presumed able to defend himself in the clinches.

The girls seemed to spend half their time tiptoeing in `` to see if Mike was all right '' and they were too preoccupied to cook, much less be secretaries.

Americium was detected in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

First-year head coach Mike Smith was named 2008 NFL Coach of the Year.

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

* Mike Duxbury, footballer, was born in the town

A. Panitz's patent, was developed by Mike Miller starting in 1983 and culminated with the first prototype in 1986.

Beavis's laugh was based on a " straight A " classmate of creator Mike Judge's, who had a guttural laugh.