Playing for a weak team may not have helped Stephenson's representative career, though England were not short of outstanding wicketkeepers in this period. The nearest he got to Test honours was as part of a Commonwealth team that toured India in 1950–51, when he took part in two of the "unofficial Tests" and headed the batting averages for the tour as a whole. In 1955–56 he toured Pakistan with a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) "A" side and played in two of the "representative matches" against what was close to being a full Pakistan Test side.