- Awards received: - Cricket Writer's Club Young Cricketer of the Year, 1981 - One of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack's Five Cricketers of the Year, 1983 - OBE, 1987
- On the 1986 cricket tour of the West Indies, Gatting, playing for England, suffered a broken nose when he was hit by a very quick bowl by West Indies fast bowler Malcolm Marshall. The TV footage of Mike breaking his nose and returning back home was used in a Sunday Times TV commercial in 2001.
- He has been a fan of the television series Docteur Who (1963) since he was a boy.
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