Tip Foster
| Full Name: | Tip Foster |
| Date of birth: | 01 / 01 / 1970 |
| Role: | Batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand |
| Bowling style: | Unknown |
Career summary
-Test Debut v Australia at Sydney - December, 1903
- Foster is the only man to have captained England at both Football and Cricket.
- Foster made 287 on his test debut, still a record for a debutant, against Australia in 1903.
- He only played one full season of county cricket, and made 2128 runs at 50.66. It also earned him Wisden Cricketer of the Year honours.
- His test career was cut short, firstly due to business commitments, and later diabetes which claimed his life in 1914, aged just 36.
Test Matches
| Career Span: | 1903-1907 |
| Matches: | 8 |
| Innings: | 14 |
| Not Outs: | 0 |
| Runs: | 602 |
| Highest Score: | 287 |
| Average: | 46.31 |
| 50s: | 1 |
| 100s: | 1 |
| Ducks: | 1 |
| Pairs: | 0 |
| Caught Out: | 6 |
| Stumped Out: | 2 |
| Innings Bowled: | 0 |
| Overs: | 0 |
| Maidens: | 0 |
| Runs Conceded: | 0 |
| Wickets: | 0 |
| 5 Wicket Innings: | 0 |
| 10 Wicket Innings: | 0 |
| Average: | 0.0 |
| Economy Rate: | 0 |
| Best bowling in Innings: | 0 |
