diff --git a/galen-core/src/main/java/com/galenframework/speclang2/AlphanumericComparator.java b/galen-core/src/main/java/com/galenframework/speclang2/AlphanumericComparator.java
index 790fd9a3..28fa47a5 100644
--- a/galen-core/src/main/java/com/galenframework/speclang2/AlphanumericComparator.java
+++ b/galen-core/src/main/java/com/galenframework/speclang2/AlphanumericComparator.java
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ public int compare(String left, String right) {
         int result;
 
         while(leftReader.hasMore() && rightReader.hasMore()) {
-            Object leftChunk = parseChunk(leftReader);
-            Object rightChunk = parseChunk(rightReader);
+            String leftChunk = parseChunk(leftReader);
+            String rightChunk = parseChunk(rightReader);
 
-            if (leftChunk instanceof Number && rightChunk instanceof Number) {
+            if (firstLetterIsDigit(leftChunk) && firstLetterIsDigit(rightChunk)) {
                 result = toInt(leftChunk) - toInt(rightChunk);
                 if (result != 0) {
                     return result;
@@ -50,11 +50,15 @@ public int compare(String left, String right) {
         return left.length() - right.length();
     }
 
-    private Integer toInt(Object chunk) {
-        return ((Number)chunk).intValue();
+    private boolean firstLetterIsDigit(String chunk) {
+        return chunk.length() > 0 && isDigit(chunk.charAt(0));
     }
 
-    private Object parseChunk(StringCharReader reader) {
+    private Integer toInt(String chunk) {
+        return Integer.parseInt(chunk);
+    }
+
+    private String parseChunk(StringCharReader reader) {
         if (isDigit(reader.currentSymbol())) {
             return parseNumber(reader);
         } else {
@@ -71,13 +75,13 @@ private String parseNonNumber(StringCharReader reader) {
         return builder.toString();
     }
 
-    private Integer parseNumber(StringCharReader reader) {
+    private String parseNumber(StringCharReader reader) {
         StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
 
         while(reader.hasMore() && isDigit(reader.currentSymbol())) {
             builder.append(reader.next());
         }
-        return Integer.parseInt(builder.toString());
+        return builder.toString();
     }
 
     private boolean isDigit(char symbol) {
diff --git a/galen-core/src/test/java/com/galenframework/tests/speclang2/AlphanumericComparatorTest.java b/galen-core/src/test/java/com/galenframework/tests/speclang2/AlphanumericComparatorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9f022bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/galen-core/src/test/java/com/galenframework/tests/speclang2/AlphanumericComparatorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package com.galenframework.tests.speclang2;
+
+import com.galenframework.speclang2.AlphanumericComparator;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+
+public class AlphanumericComparatorTest {
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldSortProperly() {
+        List<String> list = asList(
+                "abc 123 edf2",
+                "abc 123 edf",
+                "abc 2 edf",
+                "abc 13 edf",
+                "abc 12 edf",
+                "abd 2 edf",
+                "abb 2 edf"
+                );
+
+        Collections.sort(list, new AlphanumericComparator());
+
+        assertThat(list, is(asList(
+                "abb 2 edf",
+                "abc 2 edf",
+                "abc 12 edf",
+                "abc 13 edf",
+                "abc 123 edf",
+                "abc 123 edf2",
+                "abd 2 edf"
+        )));
+    }
+}