How many Test runs has Alec Bedser scored?

Alec Bedser has 714 runs in 71 Test innings from 51 matches at an average of 12.75. Highest score: 79.

What is Alec Bedser's Test batting average?

Alec Bedser's Test batting average is 12.75, from 714 runs and 71 innings.

How many Test wickets has Alec Bedser taken?

Alec Bedser has taken 236 wickets in Test from 51 matches at a bowling average of 24.89. Best innings: 7/44.

Which teams has Alec Bedser played international cricket for?

Alec Bedser is recorded for England in this publication.

When did Alec Bedser play international cricket?

This career snapshot covers 1946 to 1955. Dates follow the official record, not only the scorecard archive.

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Alec Bedser

Bowler · 1946 to 1955 · 51 internationals

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Test51 matches

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51Internationals

714Runs

0Hundreds

236Wickets

26Catches

Career records by format

Batting career records by format
Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	0s	4s	6s
Test	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	0	1	11	-	6

Bowling career records by format
Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Test	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	14/99	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15	5

Fielding career records by format
Format	Mat	Inns	Ct	St	Dis	Dis/inns	Best
Test	51	93	26	0	26	0.279	2 (2ct 0st)

Career records checked 2026-09-30. Independent of the scorecard archive.

Alec Bedser: Test stats

Test

51 matches · 1946-1955

236wickets

Matches: 51
Average: 24.89
Economy: 2.21
Strike rate: 67.44
Best innings: 7/44
Five-fors: 15

714 runs · batting average 12.75

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Scorecard coverage

Scorecard coverage of the official career
Format	Official bat inns	In scorecards	Official bowl inns	In scorecards	First	Latest	Coverage
Test	71	71	92	92	1946-06-22	1955-07-07	Complete

Questions fans ask about Alec Bedser

How many Test runs has Alec Bedser scored?: Alec Bedser has 714 runs in 71 Test innings from 51 matches at an average of 12.75. Highest score: 79.
What is Alec Bedser's Test batting average?: Alec Bedser's Test batting average is 12.75, from 714 runs and 71 innings.
How many Test wickets has Alec Bedser taken?: Alec Bedser has taken 236 wickets in Test from 51 matches at a bowling average of 24.89. Best innings: 7/44.
Which teams has Alec Bedser played international cricket for?: Alec Bedser is recorded for England in this publication.
When did Alec Bedser play international cricket?: This career snapshot covers 1946 to 1955. Dates follow the official record, not only the scorecard archive.

Explore every recorded innings

51 match appearances in available scorecards. Filters apply to this archive only.

Latest appearances

Recent available appearances
Date	Match	Format	Result
1955-07-07	England v South Africa	Test	South Africa won by 3 wickets
1954-11-26	Australia v England	Test	Australia won by inns & 154 runs
1954-07-22	England v Pakistan	Test	Match drawn
1954-07-01	England v Pakistan	Test	England won by inns & 129 runs
1953-08-15	Australia v England	Test	England won by 8 wickets
1953-07-23	Australia v England	Test	Match drawn
1953-07-09	Australia v England	Test	Match drawn
1953-06-25	Australia v England	Test	Match drawn
1953-06-11	Australia v England	Test	Match drawn
1952-08-14	England v India	Test	Match drawn
1952-07-17	England v India	Test	England won by inns & 207 runs
1952-06-19	England v India	Test	England won by 8 wickets

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TEST CAREER · 1946 to 1955

Alec Bedser in Tests

Complete: every official innings is in the scorecards

236Wickets

24.89Average

2.21Economy

67.44Strike rate

7/44Best

15Five-fors

Official Test record

Official Test batting record
Batting	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Career	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	0	1	11	-	6

Official Test bowling record
Bowling	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Career	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	14/99	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15	5

Official Test fielding record
Fielding	Mat	Inns	Ct	St	Dis	Dis/Inns	Best
Career	51	93	26	0	26	0.279	2 (2ct 0st)

Test career in charts

Test wickets, innings by innings

Test wickets by year

Last 20 Test bowling innings

Test innings by wickets

Test runs, innings by innings

Test runs by year

Last 20 Test innings

01-4950-99100+* not out

Test innings by score

1-9

10-24

25-49

50-99

100+

How Test innings ended

Caught23 · 32.4%

Bowled23 · 32.4%

LBW8 · 11.3%

Run out1 · 1.4%

Stumped1 · 1.4%

Not out15 · 21.1%

Test batting position: average and innings

1-0 inns

2-0 inns

3-0 inns

479.001 inns

50.502 inns

6-0 inns

79.502 inns

89.9011 inns

913.9526 inns

1010.4124 inns

1118.005 inns

Recent Test form

Last 10 batting innings

72runs

12.00average

-strike rate

050s

0100s

Last 10 bowling innings

19wickets

32.57average

2.78economy

70.15strike rate

3/9best

Test record by situation

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Alec Bedser: Test batting by opposition
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
Australia	21	35	9	373	79	14.34	-	-	1	5	-	3
South Africa	13	19	4	173	33	11.53	-	-	0	2	-	1
West Indies	3	6	0	20	13	3.33	-	-	0	3	-	0
India	5	5	0	65	30	13.00	-	-	0	0	-	1
New Zealand	5	5	1	61	28	15.25	-	-	0	1	-	0
Pakistan	1	1	1	22	22*	N/A	-	-	0	0	2	1
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test bowling by opposition
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Australia	21	37	7,065	209	2,859	104	7/44	27.49	2.42	67.93	5	7
South Africa	13	26	4,221	148	1,457	54	7/58	26.98	2.07	78.16	2	3
India	7	12	1,849	90	577	44	7/49	13.11	1.87	42.02	2	4
New Zealand	5	8	1,248	50	448	13	4/74	34.46	2.15	96.00	2	0
West Indies	3	5	1,086	49	377	11	5/127	34.27	2.08	98.72	0	1
Pakistan	2	4	449	28	158	10	3/9	15.80	2.11	44.90	0	0
All	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15

Alec Bedser: Test batting by home and away
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
Home	29	40	8	420	79	13.12	-	-	1	8	-	6
Away	19	31	7	294	33	12.25	-	-	0	3	-	0
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test bowling by home and away
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Home	32	60	9,700	430	3,600	167	7/44	21.55	2.22	58.08	5	13
Away	19	32	6,218	144	2,276	69	5/46	32.98	2.19	90.11	6	2
All	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15

Alec Bedser: Test batting by match innings
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
1st innings of the match	20	20	4	303	79	18.93	-	-	1	2	-	4
2nd innings of the match	27	27	6	275	33	13.09	-	-	0	3	-	2
3rd innings of the match	15	15	3	86	19	7.16	-	-	0	2	-	0
4th innings of the match	9	9	2	50	25	7.14	-	-	0	4	-	0
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test bowling by match innings
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
1st innings of the match	30	30	6,661	249	2,236	100	7/49	22.36	2.01	66.61	7	6
2nd innings of the match	21	21	4,055	123	1,558	51	6/95	30.54	2.30	79.50	3	3
3rd innings of the match	28	28	3,871	168	1,446	69	7/44	20.95	2.24	56.10	1	5
4th innings of the match	13	13	1,331	34	636	16	7/52	39.75	2.86	83.18	0	1
All	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15

Alec Bedser: Test batting by batting position
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
No. 4	1	1	0	79	79	79.00	-	-	1	0	8	2
No. 5	2	2	0	1	1	0.50	-	-	0	1	0	0
No. 7	2	2	0	19	19	9.50	-	-	0	1	-	0
No. 8	9	11	0	109	33	9.90	-	-	0	0	-	1
No. 9	21	26	5	293	37	13.95	-	-	0	6	-	2
No. 10	16	24	7	177	27*	10.41	-	-	0	3	-	0
No. 11	4	5	3	36	22*	18.00	-	-	0	0	-	1
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test batting by match result
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
Won	13	15	4	222	33	20.18	-	-	0	1	-	1
Lost	17	33	6	254	79	9.40	-	-	1	9	-	2
Drawn	18	23	5	238	37	13.22	-	-	0	1	-	3
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test bowling by match result
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Won	14	28	4,099	185	1,298	74	7/49	17.54	1.89	55.39	3	6
Lost	17	28	5,768	181	2,213	66	6/37	33.53	2.30	87.39	4	2
Drawn	20	36	6,051	208	2,365	96	7/44	24.63	2.34	63.03	4	7
All	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15

Alec Bedser: Test batting by year
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
1946	4	6	1	73	30	14.60	-	-	0	1	-	0
1947	6	10	3	88	27*	12.57	-	-	0	1	-	1
1948	7	12	2	200	79	20.00	-	-	1	2	-	2
1949	5	7	0	90	33	12.85	-	-	0	1	-	0
1950	5	9	2	38	14*	5.42	-	-	0	4	-	0
1951	10	13	3	124	30*	12.40	-	-	0	2	-	0
1952	3	3	0	27	17	9.00	-	-	0	0	-	1
1953	5	6	3	38	22*	12.66	-	-	0	0	-	1
1954	2	3	1	32	22*	16.00	-	-	0	0	3	1
1955	1	2	0	4	3	2.00	-	-	0	0	0	0
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test bowling by year
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
1946	5	7	1,562	45	610	27	7/49	22.59	2.34	57.85	2	2
1947	6	11	2,176	55	892	21	4/95	42.47	2.45	103.61	1	0
1948	7	13	2,212	92	871	26	4/39	33.50	2.36	85.07	3	0
1949	5	10	1,598	39	586	15	4/61	39.06	2.20	106.53	2	0
1950	5	9	1,555	60	511	24	5/127	21.29	1.97	64.79	2	1
1951	10	18	3,250	133	1,003	49	7/58	20.46	1.85	66.32	1	5
1952	4	7	983	57	279	20	5/27	13.95	1.70	49.15	0	2
1953	5	10	1,591	58	682	39	7/44	17.48	2.57	40.79	0	5
1954	3	5	745	32	289	11	3/9	26.27	2.32	67.72	0	0
1955	1	2	246	3	153	4	2/61	38.25	3.73	61.50	0	0
All	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15

Alec Bedser: Test batting by ground
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
Lord's	7	9	1	83	30	10.37	-	-	0	2	-	0
Trent Bridge	5	9	2	51	22	7.28	-	-	0	1	-	1
Old Trafford	7	8	2	128	37	21.33	-	-	0	0	-	3
Headingley	5	7	2	134	79	26.80	-	-	1	0	-	2
Kennington Oval	5	7	1	24	22*	4.00	-	-	0	5	-	0
Sydney Cricket Ground	3	6	2	38	14	9.50	-	-	0	0	0	0
Brisbane Cricket Ground	3	5	0	28	18	5.60	-	-	0	2	3	0
Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	5	3	81	27*	40.50	-	-	0	0	7	0
Adelaide Oval	2	4	0	12	7	3.00	-	-	0	1	1	0
The Wanderers Stadium	2	3	0	32	19	10.66	-	-	0	0	-	0
All	51	71	15	714	79	12.75	-	-	1	11	-	6

Alec Bedser: Test bowling by ground
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Lord's	7	14	2,627	121	957	34	7/49	28.14	2.18	77.26	2	2
Old Trafford	7	14	1,816	88	686	51	7/52	13.45	2.26	35.60	2	5
Trent Bridge	6	12	2,289	111	829	41	7/44	20.21	2.17	55.82	0	4
Headingley	5	10	1,471	55	578	16	6/95	36.12	2.35	91.93	0	1
Kennington Oval	7	10	1,497	55	550	25	5/41	22.00	2.20	59.88	1	1
Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	6	1,145	22	460	22	5/46	20.90	2.41	52.04	1	2
Adelaide Oval	2	4	768	17	301	6	3/74	50.16	2.35	128.00	0	0
Brisbane Cricket Ground	3	4	810	15	344	10	4/45	34.40	2.54	81.00	1	0
Sydney Cricket Ground	3	4	1,104	22	384	9	4/107	42.66	2.08	122.66	1	0
The Wanderers Stadium	2	4	640	13	228	5	2/81	45.60	2.13	128.00	0	0
All	51	92	15,918	574	5,876	236	7/44	24.89	2.21	67.44	11	15

- not recorded in the scorecards · N/A no dismissals or balls to divide by

Test milestones

Five-wicket innings 15

Best Test performances

Alec Bedser: highest Test scores
Score	BF	SR	4s	6s	Opponent	Ground	Date
79	-	-	8	2	Australia	Headingley	1948-07-22
37	-	-	7	0	Australia	Old Trafford	1948-07-08
33	-	-	-	0	South Africa	St George's Park	1949-03-05
30*	-	-	3	0	South Africa	Old Trafford	1951-07-05
30	-	-	-	0	India	Lord's	1946-06-22
28	-	-	2	0	New Zealand	Basin Reserve	1951-03-24
27*	52	51.92	2	0	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1947-01-01
26*	-	-	3	0	South Africa	Lord's	1951-06-21
25	50	50.00	3	0	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1947-01-01
22*	-	-	-	0	Australia	Kennington Oval	1953-08-15

Alec Bedser: best Test bowling
Figures	Balls	Mdns	Econ	Opponent	Ground	Date
7/44	104	7	2.53	Australia	Trent Bridge	1953-06-11
7/49	175	11	1.68	India	Lord's	1946-06-22
7/52	150	4	2.08	India	Old Trafford	1946-07-20
7/55	231	16	1.42	Australia	Trent Bridge	1953-06-11
7/58	195	10	1.78	South Africa	Old Trafford	1951-07-05
6/37	136	8	1.63	South Africa	Trent Bridge	1951-06-07
6/95	173	2	3.29	Australia	Headingley	1953-07-23
5/27	90	6	1.80	India	Old Trafford	1952-07-17
5/41	89	4	2.76	India	Kennington Oval	1952-08-14
5/46	176	5	1.56	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1951-02-23

Latest Test matches

Latest Test matches
Date	Opponent	Bat	Bowl	Ground	Result
1955-07-07	South Africa	1 & 3	2/92 & 2/61	Old Trafford	South Africa won by 3 wickets
1954-11-26	Australia	5 & 5	1/131	Brisbane Cricket Ground	Australia won by inns & 154 runs
1954-07-22	Pakistan	22*	3/36 & 3/9	Old Trafford	Match drawn
1954-07-01	Pakistan	did not bat	2/30 & 2/83	Trent Bridge	England won by inns & 129 runs
1953-08-15	Australia	22*	3/88 & 0/24	Kennington Oval	England won by 8 wickets
1953-07-23	Australia	0* & 3*	6/95 & 1/65	Headingley	Match drawn
1953-07-09	Australia	10	5/115 & 2/14	Old Trafford	Match drawn
1953-06-25	Australia	1	5/105 & 3/77	Lord's	Match drawn
1953-06-11	Australia	2	7/55 & 7/44	Trent Bridge	Match drawn
1952-08-14	India	did not bat	5/41	Kennington Oval	Match drawn