'I never get a niggle. It's always a proper injury'
Check out the Brian Viner interview with Andrew Flintoff in the Independent .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Check out the Brian Viner interview with Andrew Flintoff in the Independent.
His refusal to endorse Pietersen's broadside at Stanford seemed significant to me. Flintoff is too decent and honest a character to make retrospective judgements in public about a man whose money he was happy to accept, and even as I prodded him for his feelings about Giles Clarke and David Collier of the England and Wales Cricket Board, who refuse to acknowledge their craven foolishness in hooking the reputation of English cricket to the rotor blades of the Texan's hired helicopter, I knew that I would get nowhere. "That's not my business, that's got nothing to do with me," he said, understandably, when I asked whether he would like to have seen Clarke and Collier resign. Fair enough, but did he hold private opinions? "Not really."
Let us now praise famous men. Andrew Flintoff is not playing in the fourth Test because he bowled himself into the ground in the last one. He may not play again in the series, and he may have bowled himself out of the Indian Premier League and the personal riches that come from it. It's possible that he will miss the beginning of the English summer, perhaps even the Ashes, writes Simon Barnes in the Times.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo