I'm tired of writing it, you're tired of reading it, even James Foster is fed up of being asked about it... but the Essex wicketkeeper really should be the England gloveman.
In his round-up of the opening salvos of the cricket season, Patrick Kidd looked at players who might score a 1,000 runs before the end of May and noted that Surrey wickie Steven Davies was leading the chase.
But he then noted that Foster had got off to a flyer runs-wise scoring 325 runs at an average of 65, despite the Lancashire debacle, making him the fifth highest run-scorer in Division One of the Championship and the sixth most valuable player in the PCA ratings (his Essex team mates David Masters and Ryan ten Doeschate lie seventh and eighth respectively).
Foster has also been named by Jack Russell as not just the best glovesman in the country but in the world. Pretty high praise from one of the most brilliant keepers this country has produced.
With those credentials, you'd think Foster was a certainty for an England call...
But no, when the England squad for the first Test against Bangladesh in May is announced, you can be sure James Foster's name won't be on it.
Read Patrick Kidd's article here http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/2010/04/ten-thoughts-on-the-county-season-so-far.html
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