James Foster (cricketer)

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EnglandPersonal information Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB) Bowling style N/A Career statistics Tests ODIsMatches 7 11 Runs scored 226 41 Batting average25.11 13.66 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 Top score 48 13 Overs0 0 WicketsN/A N/A Bowling averageN/A N/A 5 wickets in inningsN/A N/A 10 wickets in match N/A n/a Best bowling N/A N/A Catches/stumpings17/1 13/7

As of 17 June 2005
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James Savin Foster (born 15 April 1980 in Leytonstone, London) is an English cricketer, a wicket-keeper who played seven Tests and 11 One Day Internationals in 2001/02 and 2002/03. Rather too many mistakes with the gloves and rather too few runs with the bat meant that he was never completely secure in his place, on one occasion suffering the indignity of seeing his place behind the stumps taken by Marcus Trescothick in an ODI against New Zealand. By the time Alec Stewart finally left the scene first Chris Read and then Geraint Jones had moved above him in the selectors' thoughts.

Foster in action against Cambridge UCCE, April 2005

In county cricket Foster has played for Essex since his County Championship debut in 2000. He had his maiden first-class hundred against Worcestershire in 2001, but two broken bones ruined his 2002 season and though 2003 was a better year there was little hint of the startling summer he was to enjoy with the bat in 2004. That season he hit four more centuries, including 212 against Leicestershire as Essex racked up the small matter of 708/9 declared. He also passed 1,000 runs for the season for the first time, averaging 51.85, and claimed 51 victims. In the 2006 season, he averaged 42.41 in the Liverpool Victoria County Championship and showed good form with the gloves and bat in one day cricket also.