Time to promote free spirit Flintoff

Call it a rant, call it a rave, but Geoff Boycott wants Andrew Flintoff to bat well up the order, because he just isn't scoring any runs.

If Boycs and his mum were in charge of that scraggly outfit, free-spirited Freddie wouldn't sit at No. 6 - a place where "he finds himself needing to build an innings against the spinners and the dibbly-dobbly seamers".

Read the full article in the Telegraph here

In the Guardian, Lawrence Booth rings a similar tune by saying that Flintoff must trust his strokeplaying instincts as he strives to return to form against Bangladesh.

"While England's batting has at times resembled a dog's dinner Flintoff's World Cup contribution is a curate's egg," he writes. You really can't deny that.