Editing Alec Stewart (section)

===Prominence===
His highest Test score, 190, was against [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] in the drawn first [[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]] Test on 4 June 1992; it was his fourth century in five Tests. In 1994 at the [[Kensington Oval]] he became only the seventh Englishman to score centuries in both innings of a Test match, scoring 118 and 143 as the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] were beaten at their [[Kensington Oval|Bridgetown]] "fortress" for the first time since 1935.<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153212.html Wisden: West Indies v England, 1993–94]</ref>

Stewart's batting average (39.54) is the lowest of any player to have scored 8000 or more runs in Test cricket: he is the only player to have scored over 8000 runs despite an average of under 40.<ref>[http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=runs;qualmin3=8000;qualval3=runs;template=results;type=batting Cricinfo statsguru: batsmen who scored 8000 Test runs or more]</ref> However, when played as a specialist batsman in Test cricket, Stewart averaged 46.90 in 51 games with 9 centuries. Since [[World War II]], only [[Len Hutton]], [[Geoff Boycott]], [[Dennis Amiss]] and [[Alastair Cook]] have bettered Stewart's average of 46 as a specialist opening batsman for England.<ref>[http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?batting_positionmax1=2;batting_positionval1=batting_position;class=1;filter=advanced;keeper=0;orderby=batting_average;qualmin1=30;qualval1=innings;spanmin2=1+jan+1945;spanval2=span;team=1;template=results;type=batting Cricinfo statsguru: openers by batting average since 1945]</ref> As wicketkeeper-batsman he averaged 34.92 from 82 tests, higher than many of his contemporaries. He was unlucky enough to be on the losing side in a record 54 Test Matches.

Stewart holds the record for scoring the most test runs without a career double century in test history (8463).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Batting/BattingMostCareerRunsWO100.asp?Stat=2|title=HowSTAT! Test Cricket – Most Career Runs without a Double Century|website=howstat.com|access-date=2017-03-24}}</ref>