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Alec Stewart: Batting, keeping wickets and leading England through her dark days
Alec Stewart was England’s captain, batsman and wicketkeeper. When he retired, he was England's most-capped Test cricketer and second-highest Test run-scorer.
Written by Abhishek Mukherjee
Published: Apr 08, 2013, 08:24 PM (IST)
Edited: Apr 08, 2017, 04:10 PM (IST)
Born April 8, 1963, Alec Stewart was England’s captain, batsman and wicketkeeper.
Abhishek Mukherjee recalls the career.
Had England been the side it is now, Alec Stewart’s numbers would have looked a lot better.
He's a tremendous one-day player and a great Test cricketer but here he rolled both roles into one.The double duties of a batsman (often an opener) and a wicketkeeper, and as a captain later in his career, hampered his numbers to a great extent. Even then, 8,463 runs at 39.54 and 277 victims from 133 Tests are reasonable numbers.
Instead, he played his cricket in what can easily be considered the worst decade for English cricket.
Along with Michael Atherton, Stewart had tried his level best to keep the t