What makes Flintoff great?
There's been much debate over whether Andrew Flintoff can be called a great player
Flintoff was great for a couple of months. In those two months, in the summer of 2005, England beat an Australia side packed full of indisputably great players, regaining the Ashes after 16 years. Flintoff was the inspiration, the deal-breaker, the match-winner and the series-winner. In this brief, enchanted period he was genuinely great, and if the rest of his career has failed to measure up, then it was much the same with Beamon.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo