10 best players of all time from Surrey

#7 Alec Stewart

Alec Stewart

Had England been the side it is now, Alec Stewart’s numbers would have looked a lot better. 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 an average of 39.54 and 277 victims from 133 Tests are very good numbers for a wicket-keeper.

He played a staggering 951 games (first-class and list A) scoring more than 40,000 runs. And these runs were consistently scored often bailing his team out of tricky situations.

He was also key to Surrey’s dominance from 1999-2002 where they won three County Championships (Division I). In a career that spanned for about 13 years, Stewart emerged as one of England's greatest wicketkeeper-batsman of all time.