Alec Stewart

Alec Stewart
England
Personal information
Full name	Alec James Stewart
Born	8 April 1963 (1963-04-08) (age 45)
	Merton, Surrey, England
Role	Wicket-keeper
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Occasional right-arm medium
International information
Test debut (cap 543)	24 February 1990: v West Indies
Last Test	8 September 2003: v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 104)	15 October 1989: v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	2 March 2003:  v Australia
ODI shirt no.	4
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1981 – 2003	Surrey
Career statistics
	Tests	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	133	170	447	504
Runs scored	8463	4677	26165	14771
Batting average	39.54	31.60	40.06	35.08
100s/50s	15/45	4/28	48/148	19/94
Top score	190	116	271*	167*
Balls bowled	20	0	502	4
Wickets	0	–	3	0
Bowling average	–	–	148.66	–
5 wickets in innings	–	–	0	–
10 wickets in match	–	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	–	–	1/7	–
Catches/stumpings	263/14	159/15	721/32	442/48
As of 14 October, 2007 Source: Cricinfo

Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April, 1963 in Merton, Greater London) is a retired English cricketer, a right-handed batsman-wicketkeeper and former captain of the English cricket team. He is the most capped English cricketer of all time in both Test matches and One Day International, having played in 133 Tests and 170 ODIs.

Career

He was educated at Tiffin Boys' School in Kingston upon Thames and made his debut for Surrey in 1981 earning a reputation as an aggressive opening batsman and occasional wicketkeeper. He made his England debut in the first Test of the 1989/90 tour of the West Indies, along with Nasser Hussain, who would eventually replace him as England captain. He was vice-captain of the England side during most of Michael Atherton's tenure as captain, eventually succeeding him in 1998. While England won their first series under him, against South Africa, failures against Australia and in the 1999 cricket World Cup saw him sacked from the captaincy to be replaced by Hussain. During his captaincy, he had the unusual distinction of simultaneously captaining the side, opening the batting and keeping wicket. He continued as an England player for five more seasons, and became only the fourth player to score a century in his 100th Test, at Old Trafford. In 1994 at the Kensington Oval in the West Indies he became only the 7th English batsmen to score centuries in both innings of a Test match. His highest Test score, 190, was against Pakistan in the first Edgbaston Test on 4 June 1992 - a match that was drawn. Stewart has the lowest batting average of any player to have scored 8000 or more runs in Test cricket. However, this still represents a fine return given he had the burden of keeping wicket in 82 of his 133 test matches. As a specialist batsman in Test cricket, Stewart averaged 46.90 in 51 games with 9 centuries. As wicketkeeper batsman he averaged an impressive 34.92 from 82 tests, higher than many of his contemporaries and many of the current batch of international wicketkeepers. He was unlucky enough to be on the losing side in a record 54 Test Matches. He is also the younger son of a former English Test cricketer, Micky Stewart. Stewart is a well-known supporter of Surrey County Cricket Club and Chelsea F.C. His favourite Chelsea player when growing up was John Hollins, which is why he always wore the number 4 shirt in One Day Internationals. ^[1]

Honours

• Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1993
• Awarded the MBE on 13 June 1998
• Awarded the OBE on 14 June 2003

Trivia

Alec Stewart's career performance graph.

• Stewart has been victim to Shane Warne for three of Warne's landmarks, his 150th, 250th and 400th wickets. He is also the legspinner's most frequent victim, having been dismissed by Warne 14 times during his career.
• England and Surrey batsman Mark Butcher was married to Alec Stewart's sister Judy.[1]

References

1. ^ Profile at Arundel Promotions

External links

• Alec Stewart's Greatest One-Day XI
• Player Profile: Alec Stewart from Cricinfo
• Alec Stewart at Cricket Archive

•  • e England squad - 1992 Cricket World Cup
1 Gooch (c) • 2 Botham • 3 DeFreitas • 4 Fairbrother • 5 Hick • 6 Illingworth • 7 Lamb • 8 Lewis • 9 Pringle • 10 Reeve • 11 Small • 12 Smith • 13 Stewart (wk) • 14 Tufnell

•  • e England squad - 1996 Cricket World Cup
1 Atherton (c) • 2 Cork • 3 DeFreitas • 4 Fairbrother • 5 Gough • 6 Hick • 7 Martin • 8 Illingworth • 9 Russell (wk) • 10 NMK Smith • 11 RA Smith • 12 Stewart • 13 Thorpe • 14 White

•  • e England squad - 1999 Cricket World Cup
1 Stewart (c/wk) • 2 Austin • 3 Croft • 4 Ealham • 5 Fairbrother • 6 Flintoff • 7 Fraser • 8 Gough • 9 Hick • 10 Hollioake • 11 Hussain • 12 Knight • 13 Mullally • 14 Thorpe • 15 Wells • Coach: Lloyd

•  • e England squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Knight • 2 Caddick • 3 Hussain • 4 Stewart • 5 Collingwood • 6 White • 11 Flintoff • 15 Irani • 22 Hoggard • 23 Trescothick • 28 Harmison • 29 Giles • 37 Blackwell • 40 Anderson • 99 Vaughan • Coach: Fletcher