5 English players who started on a high but fizzled out later

#1. Tip Foster

Tip Foster's original name was Reginald Erskine Foster

Tip Foster holds several interesting records. He is the only Englishman to captain the national football and cricket team and has scored the highest individual score in debut Test innings.

He was one of the seven Foster brothers who represented Worcestershire and was the only one among them to play for England. After amassing a mountain of runs in first class cricket, he was included in the Test match against Australia in 1903.

And the right-hand batsman didn't disappoint.

Responding to Australia's 285, England were in a spot of bother with the score 73 for three and the wicket assisting the bowlers, courtesy of the overnight rain. Foster though stood tall and weathered the storm using his strong defence.

The English batsman then launched an attack as soon as the wicket lost its moisture and enabled England to reach to 577. He scored 287 runs which was the highest individual score in Tests of that time.

Also, his innings of 287 was the highest score by any overseas batsman in Australia, a record which was finally broken by Ross Taylor in 2015, when he slammed 290 runs.

Foster played four more years of Test cricket but in his next 13 innings managed to produce only one fifty-plus score. In his first innings he made 287 runs and in his next 13 innings, he added a total of 315 runs.

His Test career ended abruptly due to inconsistent scores and also due to his health issues. He was diabetic and died in 1914, aged 36.