Alec Bedser
There was one carbon copy of the great Surrey and England bowler Alec Bedser, in the form of his identical twin Eric, who played alongside him for years at The Oval. Legend has it that they flipped a coin to see which one would bowl medium pace and which one would wake up off-spin and Alec won the toss: he went on to take more than 200 Test wickets in a glittering international career while Eric never did get a Test call. But another Alec Bedser played a few first-class matches for Border in South Africain the 1970s and spookily he had a twin brother called Eric too.