James Foster

You know, Jonathan Trott now with the Lions.

You brought in Richard Dawson, James Foster, Marcus Trescothick.

England have only had, um, an English head coach of the test team twice, or three times really, over the past quarter of a century.

Someone, Peter Moores, had a go at it twice.

I also believe that it's for coaches to succeed and fail on their terms as much as possible.

You try and give them a system and try and give them a setup that they feel they can succeed to the best of their ability, and you do that by bringing in a, a support staff that can help.

And Stephen Fleming was big on having Richard Dawson, James Foster.

Eric he knows.

And also Sam Charnley, the Vipers operations manager.

The Phil he mentions is, of course, Phil Oliver, the Vipers CEO, while Moods and Fozzie are Tom Moody, the director of cricket, and James Foster, the Vipers head coach.

Let's dive in then to a great chat.

Freddie Wilde, thank you very much indeed for joining us here on Vipers Voices.

And after the 2005 Ashes, we had Matt Pryor come in as wicketkeeper.

And my favourite ever cricket player, apart from Alistair Cook, is James Foster.

And James Foster never really got a chance for England because Matt Pryor could bat a lot better than him.

But he was arguably, again, the best wicketkeeper in the world at the time.

And