Andrew Flintoff
Andrew Flintoff
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBEis an English professional cricketer and boxer...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth6 December 1977
CityLancashire, England
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I'm looking forward to it, I'm proud that I'll walk out first and lead my country in a test match.
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The one-day game is so structured and you have your own roles back in your country, and a few players had to play outside those roles, whereas in Test cricket you just go out there and play, so there is no real structures to the game so hopefully we will be a better Test side.
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To compete you need a big score in the first innings and that means a hundred from one of our batsmen. In the last test we got starts, it will be nice if someone can go on and make a big 100 and get us past 400.
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I'm going to be like a kid in a sweet shop. I'll be taking my autograph book and I won't quite know where to put myself. It's great when I think back two years because I was still trying to play for England never mind even being thought about for a World XI side
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I'll be taking my autograph book and I won't quite know where to put myself,
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It was a good wicket. Once you got set and used to the pace, you could really score runs as Paul Collingwood and Geraint Jones showed in the England innings.
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It's important tomorrow to come out with the same intent we ended today, perhaps more,
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At the end of this summer it's going to be great going to Australia and sharing a dressing room with some of the best players in the world,
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The lads are desperate to win. It is a mountain to climb now but they want to do it and so do I.
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It (the pitch) should offer more bounce, more pace and we have a decent chance to take the lead.
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We say hello to each other now and we are pleasant to each other, but it doesn't go any further than that,
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Every day I bowl I wonder how much longer it is going to last because I am never quite sure what is going to happen with my back,
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every drop of sweat we have in our bodies will be left at The Oval.
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There have been injuries, illnesses and that's not been ideal. But it's an opportunity for the team to show what we can do.