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    Sir Alec Victor Bedser CBE (4 July 1918 – 4 April 2010) was an English professional cricketer, primarily a medium-fast bowler. He is widely regarded as...
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    Bedser (4 July 1918 – 24 May 2006) was a cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club. He was the elder identical twin brother of Alec Bedser (1918–2010)...
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  • Bedser is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sir Alec Bedser (1918–2010), Surrey and England cricketer, twin brother of Eric...
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  • match starting on Saturday, 17 March. Statham bowled first change after Alec Bedser and Trevor Bailey had shared the new ball. His first Test wicket was...
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  • Alec Bedser (20 May 1948 – 5 June 1981) was a South African cricketer. He played in one List A and three first-class matches for Border in 1971/72. He...
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  • after just two test appearances, he is only behind Narendra Hirwani and Alec Bedser in picking up most test wickets after their first two test matches. He...
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  • American soccer player Alec Bathgate, New Zealand musician Alec Bedser (1918–2010), English professional cricketer Alec Bedser (South African cricketer)...
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  • from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2010. "Alec Bedser". Cricinfo. ESPN. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved...
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    an average double that of any other batsman, English or Australian. Alec Bedser took 30 wickets (16.06) and began his dominance of Australian batsmen...
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    the most by any player. Despite his success, his troubles against Alec Bedser's leg trap—he fell three consecutive times in the Tests and twice in other...
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    is eighth on the list. He is followed by his compatriots Matt Prior and Alec Stewart in tenth and eleventh with 256 and 241 dismissals respectively. Boucher...
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  • with "Kitch", "Food from the West Indies", "Tie Tongue Mopsy", and "Alec Bedser Calypso", while remaining popular in Trinidad and Tobago. His prominence...
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  •  Australia 892 Keith Miller  Australia 465 1953 Len Hutton  England 926 Alec Bedser  England 897 Keith Miller  Australia 464 1952 Len Hutton  England 917...
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    is able to "stand up", for instance Godfrey Evans often stood up to Alec Bedser. Like the other players on a cricket team the keepers will bat during...
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    hour."[citation needed] The most prominent users of leg cutter include Alec Bedser, Fazal Mahmood and of late Terry Alderman, Carl Rackemann and Venkatesh...
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  • filmed at Lord's, had to be cancelled. He said in his autobiography that Alec Bedser, the chairman of selectors, told him he had been dropped because they...
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  • Oldfield". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 December 2015. "Player profile: Alec Bedser". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 December 2015. "Player profile: Jack Ikin"...
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  • did not need another spinner) and made him concentrate on his batting. Alec Bedser predicted that Barrington was a future Test player and Sandham later...
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    Tendulkar 5. Garry Sobers 6. Don Tallon 7. Ray Lindwall (wk) 8. Dennis Lillee 9. Alec Bedser 10. Bill O'Reilly 11. Clarrie Grimmett 12. Wally Hammond (12th)...
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    the young Trueman". England, for whom Trueman opened the bowling with Alec Bedser, won the match in four days by 7 wickets. After taking three for 89 in...
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  • (only Godfrey Evans was under 28) and their bowling depended heavily on Alec Bedser and Doug Wright, who were overused and exhausted as a result. Australia...
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  • two matches drawn, their success largely due to the impact of debutant Alec Bedser who took 22 wickets in his first two Tests. The Second World War in Europe...
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  • Oval. They batted first and Lindwall managed only four, clean bowled by Alec Bedser, as Australia amassed 632. He then took the first two wickets to reduce...
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    end of the Bedser Bridge over the Basingstoke Canal, there are statues of cricketing brothers, Sir Alec and Eric Bedser by Allan Sly. Sir Alec is shown...
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    Alec Bedser and Eric Bedser (2015) are life-size bronzes which celebrate cricketing twins Alec and Eric from Horsell, erected at each end of Bedser Bridge...
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    a rest. As a result, he usually rested Len Hutton, Denis Compton and Alec Bedser and allowed the junior players to have some time at the crease. Northam...
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  • posting 110 before being clean bowled by Test seamer Alec Bedser as Australia were bowled out for 632. Bedser pitched an outswinger on leg stump and it moved...
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    notable players themselves, including Len Hutton, Denis Compton and Alec Bedser. Nevertheless, the final result was a 4–0 series win for Australia, with...
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     West Indies 1951 Keith Miller  Australia 1952 Len Hutton  England 1953 Alec Bedser 1954 Clyde Walcott  West Indies 1955 Frank Tyson  England 1956 Jim Laker...
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    success was built on a remarkably strong bowling attack, with Test seamer Alec Bedser supported by the outstanding spin duo of Tony Lock and Jim Laker, the...
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