Trivia

He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honors List and the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Cricket.

Cheam, Surrey, England (July 2008)

When he was appointed captain of England in 1998, he had the unique distinction of leading the side, opening the batting and keeping wickets at the same time.

Was already 26 years old when he debuted for England in 1989. His fellow debutante was Naseer Hussein.

Represented Surrey in English County Cricket.

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1993.

At the time of his retirement in 2004, his 133 test appearances were the highest for England and third highest overall, behind only Australians Allan Border and Steve Waugh while his aggregate total of 8463 runs was the ninth highest.

Highest run scorer in test cricket throughout the 1990s.

Made a century in his 100th test appearance, scoring 105 against the West Indies.

Amongst batsmen with over 8000 runs in tests, Stewart's average of 39.55 happens to be the lowest. However, in the 51 tests he played as a specialist batsman without keeping wickets, he recorded 3990 runs at an average of 46.94 and 9 centuries.

Son of former English cricketer Mike Stewart.

Registered twin centuries at Kensington Oval during the 1993-94 tour of the West Indies against Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh at their respective peaks, helping England inflict upon West Indies their first ever defeat against any team in Barbados since 1935.

Stewart is also the only cricketer to score over 8000 test runs without registering a double century.

A great player of high quality pace bowling, Stewart averaged more than 40 in the West Indies against the trio of Ian Bishop-Curtly Ambrose-Courtney Walsh in their prime, in South Africa against the trio of Allan Donald-Brian McMillan-Shaun Pollock and over 50 against the much stronger Pakistani duo of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. However, Stewart couldn't come to terms with the line-and-length accurate bowling of Australian Glenn McGrath and his average against Australia as a result slid to just over 30. However, his only century against Australia came on the bouncy W.A.C.A. pitch at Perth and his scoring rate in Australia was a much more respectable 35.

At the time of his retirement, he was a part of a defeated England side in 54 tests.