There are three contenders for the most gobsmacked expression in the history of cricket, and all of them involve Mike Gatting. The two most obvious being Gatt trying to fathom out where that ball from Shane Warne could possibly have got to, and – shortly after returning from the West Indies with a nose like a Victoria plum – hearing a TV reporter ask: “Where exactly did the ball hit you?”
The third is a bit more obscure, but came when Gatting got out in the 1987 World Cup final attempting a reverse sweep against Allan Border. England’s chairma...