Great player, but beginning to show his age (Alec Stewart)

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Product:	Alec Stewart
Date:	06/07/00 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: Obvious talent

Disadvantages: He always loks like getting out

There is no doubting that Alec Stewart was one of Englands great plyers of the 1990's. Not only did he score more test runs during the 90's than any other player in the world, he also took on the roles of wicketkeeper and capatain at different times. Any player avergaing above 40 whislt playing in a team as bad as england derserves emmense amounts of credit.

Whilst Stewart remains suitably competent to keep wicket at test level, in recent times his batting has left much to be desired. True, he still has a full array of shots, and he remains one of eng;land's most atacking layers who is prepared to dominate bowlers. However, his major fault is in leaving balls outside his off stump, which Stewart seems in capable of coming to terms with. It seems recently that Stewart is constantly dissmissed, either caught in the slips, or playing on, with his bad wide outside off stump, and well away from his body. More importantly, these are balls that he can afford to leave, and the shots he plays aren't going to score any runs even if he does play them properly. He seems content on aimlessly wafting outside his off stump, reserving his seat back in the pavillion. Unlike Atherton, and more recently Vaughan, Stewart constantly gets himself out, rather than making the bowler do the work, gifting them his wicket. Although this trait is in no way uncommon to english batsmen, Stewart, as the teams most experienced player, should start putting a higher price on his wicket.

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