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.”

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.”