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Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April 1963) is an English former cricketer, and former captain of the England cricket team, who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batsman.
The Oval, London: 9 August 1909: Drawn [15] 2 Jack Russell: 140: 111 England South Africa: Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban: 16 February 1923: Won [16] 3 Herbert Sutcliffe (1/2) 176: 127 England Australia: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne: 1 January 1925: Lost [17] 4 Wally Hammond: 119* 177 England Australia: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide: 1 ...
The Oval (also known as the Kennington Oval and, due to sponsorship reasons, the Kia Oval) is a cricket ground in London, England, it was established in 1845 and has a capacity of 23,500. International cricket has been played at the ground since 1880, when England played Australia in the first Test match staged in England. [ 1 ]
1963 - Alec Stewart is born at Merton; April 9. Bangladesh. ... 1987 - Pakistan's innings of 708, the highest in their Test history at The Oval came to an end.
Denis Compton, Gordon Greenidge and Alec Stewart share the record of most centuries at the ground with three. [4] The ground has witnessed 137 Test centuries. This ground is also known for being the venue of Sachin Tendulkar's first of 100 centuries in 1990.
The West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one ...
Alec Stewart (22 February 1915 – 17 November 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [ 1 ] Notes
The Lord's Pavilion. Lord's (also known as Lord's Cricket Ground) is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.Lord's is widely referred to as the "home of cricket". [1] Lord's has hosted 130 Test matches, the first of these was in 1884 when England played the touring Australian team. [2]