The flip side with a specialist keeper is that if they're not making runs, when they do make a mistake with the gloves, and no keeper is immune from mistakes in the glare of a test match, it is almost double the pressure on them.
This has happened a few times with England. Keepers not making...
Chris Read is 37, Foster 35 – hardly the future of England right now. It's probably harder to give you a list of English county wicket keepers who haven't represented England at some point... Read, Foster, Mustard, Prior, Jones, Kieswetter, Buttler, Ambrose...is there anyone better with the...