Comments on: Andrew Flintoff – do England need him?

By: Cricket Bats

Cricket Bats — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:55:20 +0000

A shame to see him go. One thing you could count on was he would always give 110%!

By: Urbi

Urbi — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:58:09 +0000

I love Flintoff..hez not at all arrogant…he waz just expressing his elation as it was his last match in Lord’s. Home of Cricket…therefore his gestures after taking wickets was understandable…hez reeli charming…nd i;ll reli miss him but hope 2 see him in one days nd 20 20….

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:38:39 +0000

But what is, Brian?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:08:08 +0000

He isn’t one of me

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:54:19 +0000

The bigger space part, maybe.

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:51:25 +0000

KC, has that ever stopped you in the past?

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:20:44 +0000

Hi Karachikhatmal,

You probably need to understand that Flintoff is more than just a fast bowler to most England fans and it’s not all to do with the performances.

Flintoff was (maybe still is) ‘one of us’.

We were going to elaborate on what that means, but it probably warrants a bigger space and a bit more thought.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:08:23 +0000

Well that’s just it, Raj. We like to see players celebrating naturally and feel like Flintoff’s celebrations are more conscious and deliberate.

These days, it seems Flintoff’s celebrations are less about the wicket he’s just taken and more about Flintoff.

By: raj

raj — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:46:49 +0000

I dont get it why the celebrations are OTT. Are we saying there are prescribed ways for celebrating, and proscribed ones?
Something in me will die the day it is mandated that all players should celebrate the Strauss way.

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:31:42 +0000

I was there, folks. I was there.

Clearly Freddie is motivated by writing his own script in this way and frankly who are we to try and stop him.

When he got to about his 7th or 8th over and things seemed to be going less his way for a while, some whingers behind us were suggesting that the captain should take Fred off. Fred was on 4fer at the time.

“Why don’t you go down there and wrestle that ball from his hand”, I suggested.

“He’s bigger than me”, came the feeble reply.

“He’s bigger than Straussy too”, I responded.