calling static methods of a templated superclass

I have a templated class A<T> that contains a static method foo() that returns an A<T> *. I have a subclass B which simply specializes to A<int>.

To avoid code duplication, I'd like B to take advantage of A's static foo() method. However, the following gets a compilation error: error: cannot initialize return object of type 'B *' with an rvalue of type 'A<int> *') But B * is exactly A<int> *, no?

Is there a way for B to use A's foo() method?

template <typename T>
class A {
public:
  static A *foo() {
    // imagine complex code here
    return new A<T>();
  }
};

// B is a typed specialization of A
class B : public A<int> {
public:
  static B *foo() {
    return A<int>::foo();    // doesn't compile
  }
};

int main() {
  B *b = B::foo();
  (void)b;                      // suppress unused variable warning
}