Alec Bedser

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Six cricketers whose careers went from morose or middling to magnificent

Playwright Terence Rattigan's 1953 film The Final Test featured six England Test cricketers

In the Test Trial of 1950 Jim Laker, who had been rejected by Yorkshire, returned to his home of Bradford and took the remarkable figures of 8 for 2

Plus debutant brothers, a man who paid for the honour of captaining England, champagne to celebrate a first wicket, and more fun Ashes facts

After receiving a pasting at the hands of the Australians during the first post-war Ashes tour, Bedser decided he had to think up a new delivery: the legcutter

England regained the Ashes at The Oval in 1953 and 2005. But the experience of Test cricket could not have changed more in in the 52 years between the two matches

An analysis of how well or poorly the leading Test bowlers started and finished their illustrious careers

Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large

Micky Stewart, the former Surrey captain, has described Alec Bedser, who died on Sunday evening at the age of 91, as the "typical traditional English professional cricketer"

Sir Alec Bedser, the Surrey and England fast bowler who Don Bradman said "worried me more than any other Englishman," died on Sunday evening at the age of 91

Forty summers ago a Cape Coloured South African playing for England unwittingly threw MCC into crisis over a tour to the apartheid republic

The eventful life and times of an England stalwart

He was England's inexhaustible colossus in the lean post-war years - both wicket-taker and stock bowler. A salute to Alec Bedser on his 90th birthday

It's not about how fast you are, it's where you land it. The man who led England's bowling for nearly a decade after World War Two looks back

Cricket history is littered with no-nonsense characters, and two of the most single-minded ones came into contact when England met India at Lord's in 1971

England and India have played nine Tests at The Oval over the years and Cricinfo looks back at the memorable performances

Chandu Sarwate and Shute Banerjee's record-breaking last-wicket stand at The Oval in 1946

Alec Bedser has been knighted in the New Year's Honour List