Flintoff should quit Tests for one-dayers

Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian, looks at various ways Andrew Flintoff can protect himself from ankle injury and concludes that the best option is for Flintoff to retire from Tests and concentrate on the shorter versions of the game.

If he is to continue to have a career at the top level in cricket, it has to be managed while he himself must be expected to suffer for his art.

Short of turning to the twiddly stuff (and Fred doesn't really do twiddly), there are, to my mind, three ways in which this can be done: firstly, by limiting the amount of cricket, or more pertinently, bowling that he does; secondly, by maximising the help he gains from his footwear; finally, by altering the way his front foot lands. None of these offers a totally satisfactory solution.