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Ashes 09: The Hope & The Freddie

August 21, 2009 – 1:28 pm

The man came out to the sort of applause that makes young men want to take up cricket and makes girls with dubious morals want to take up cricketers.
It was as if Jesus came in covered in beer and ice cream.
They stood as one unit, they applauded, they cheered, they shouted, they awed.
He did what [...]

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Ashes 09: Freddie rises, Australia crumbles

July 21, 2009 – 9:32 am

Before this Ashes series I thought Freddie was only good for cameo performances, then he announced his retirement, and while I didn’t write it, I thought maybe he could do slightly more.
Today he did. Way more.
Australia would have won this test had Harmy, Bresnan or Ronnie Irani been playing.
He was the difference between the sides.
Watching [...]

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Ashes 09: Freddie to retire (eventually)

July 16, 2009 – 5:06 am

Andrew Flintoff is retiring from Test cricket at the end of this Ashes. The way his knee is, he might only get one or two more Tests before then. This is my tribute.
Some people don’t try very hard in life.
Mostly because they are rubbish at things.
But when someone who is very good at something [...]

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Ashes 09: Freddie’s knee is buggered

July 14, 2009 – 9:56 am

Again.
I said the other day he was running like a three-legged dog.
I should know, I am playing cricket with a torn cartilage, I know what it is like to run with a knee made of cheese.
Harmy has been brought in as a possible replacement; he is allowed to play now the tests are in England.
The [...]

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