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Steen, Rob (9 January 2014). "Bedser, Sir Alec Victor (1918–2010)".
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1362:Searchlight
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565:off spinner
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77:4 July 1918
34:Alec Bedser
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2408:J. Thomson
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1984:G. Pollock
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661:Manchester
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1959:Mohammad
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503:Reading
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460:wickets
330:Wickets
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124:Batting
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2004:Rhodes
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1939:McCabe
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321:15,918
318:bowled
224:Surrey
116:Height
108:Surrey
104:Woking
2546:Saker
2516:Warne
2340:Hawke
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2292:Quick
2286:Kline
2274:Tyson
2145:Clark
2128:Women
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2084:Walsh
1999:Qadir
1974:Noble
1924:Marsh
1909:Lloyd
1884:Laker
1874:Knott
1839:Hobbs
1789:Grace
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