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Kent Cricket and England spinner James Tredwell speaks of frustration of West Indies tour but glad to claim second Test cap

James Tredwell is relieved to have avoided the tag of a one-cap Test wonder but admits he returned from yet another England tour a frustrated figure.

The 33-year-old spinner won his second Test cap in the West Indies last month, five years after his first but despite claiming 4-47 in the first innings, and his 11th Test scalp in the second, the drawn match was his last of the series.

On top of having been limited to a single appearance against Afghanistan at the ICC World Cup in Australia in March, Tredwell added of his trip to the Caribbean: “It carried on the winter and continued the frustrations from the word go.”

He added: “It’s one of those things. At the end of the World Cup, I probably didn’t see myself on that tour, so to get that opportunity and go and play in another Test match, meaning I didn’t only have one cap, was great for me but it was frustrating on the back of that performance to not get another go.”

James Tredwell. Picture: Barry Goodwin.
James Tredwell. Picture: Barry Goodwin.

Tredwell made 53 as a nightwatchman on days two and three of Kent’s Championship game with Glamorgan this week, putting on 114 for the second wicket with Joe Denly (66).

Tredwell said: “It was nice batting with someone who’s come through the system and who I’ve spent a lot of time with. It would have been nice for one of us to get a hundred but it’s not always the way.

“When you get to 50 or 60 you start thinking about getting to a hundred and that’s the issue sometimes.

“I was more disappointed with the mode of dismissal – it was the best ball I hit all day – but when you go in as nightwatchman and get 50, it’s almost a case of job done.”

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