Alec Stewart, born on 8 April 1963, is an English former cricketer who captained the England cricket team and played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman. He played 133 Tests and 170 ODIs, which makes him the fifth most capped English cricketer in Test matches and the third most capped in One Day Internationals. He is regarded as one of England's greatest openers, an attacking batsman against the new ball in Tests, and the Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram considers him one of the most difficult batsmen he ever bowled to. He was part of the English squad that finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, and failures against Australia and in the 1999 Cricket World Cup saw him sacked from the captaincy.
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