Comments on: The end for Freddie http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/ just another bullshit cricket blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: karachikhatmal http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16373 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:02:04 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16373 i think the only two englishmen i ever watched who really wanted to beat the aussies, i mean rip their throat out beat them, were simon jones and flintoff.

as i am pakistani and hence prone to conspiracies, i believe it was cricket australia that injected them with some bone eating disease leading to their sudden demise.

karachikhatmal’s last blog post..Phallic Phallacies

]]> By: Matt http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16372 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:08:58 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16372 Yep, a giant of the game. I detest seeing England beat the Aussies, but Freddie was magnificent in that series. His penetration with the ball was magnificent and his ‘Infredible’ (TM) celebrations summed up just how much the Ashes meant to him, his team and the Aussies too I reckon. A deserved legend of the game and sad that injury has prevented him from maintaining the rage in the period that followed.

]]> By: Hewy http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16371 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:54:27 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16371 Freddie – for a self confessed batting allrounder, he was a magnificent bowler. Even that first spell in Cardiff last week was a joy to behold.

I always thought he batted too high in the order – his technique was never great, but he could certainly hit a ball! I suspect he would have a higher average if he stayed at 6 or 7. Batting at 4 was a joke.

I also had the pleasure of watching that series in Pakistan way back, when he scraped into the side as a batsmen who bowled mediums. He literally could not make a run but his bowling got faster and faster and better and better and by the end of the series he had ripped the new ball out of Gough’s hands and become the Freddie we know today.

As for captaincy, the ‘forgotten ashes of 06/07′ showed that he was the next Botham in the a way the MCC wouldn’t want him to be – he can lead a team by actions but is unable to captain.

Oh, and being drunk on the day of a game for your country is unacceptable. (you two Roy).

Wonderful player, though.

]]> By: Martyd http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16370 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:42:55 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16370 A fitting tribute to a gutsy cricketer but did you suggest that Mr Flintoff is in possession of 4 testicles? Or is it possible that Oram and Kallis only have one each? Which would make it harder for them to be either a perfect boyfriend or an especially evil penguin I should have thought.

Martyd’s last blog post..Fred The Stretch

]]> By: Rob http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16369 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:40:47 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16369 We will miss him. He is worth two of any of the current England XI.

Rob’s last blog post..Selected quotes (made up of course)

]]> By: poopsie http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16368 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:18:13 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16368 Excellent tribute. His records are meaningless when debating his heart and his presence when on the pitch. Arguing that it is a good day for England or cricket that Fred has called it quits is ignorance to the Dean Jones degree

]]> By: Yenjvoy http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16367 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:52:37 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16367 The likes of Freddie will rarely be seen in the future. The freakishly talented, big-hearted, big living cricketer is a dying breed in the international game today. Roy was pushed out of a team where drinking a few beers with your mates became a liability. Freddie, who has had his own problems with drinking, will no longer put on the whites for England, pushed out by a body that could not stand up to the demands his heart made. There is no doubt he is one of the personalities of the modern game, who by his very presence in the side raised the spirits in the dressing room and the level of hope among the supporters. Test Cricket is gradually on its way to becoming as colorless as the white clothing it is best known for.

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]]> By: sahildutta http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16366 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:27:21 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16366 Nice work, excellent tribute.

Flintoff, could maybe should have defined the England team for a decade since 2000. Such a shame it wasn’t to be. I think he wanted this series to get redemption from 2006/7, sadly not to be. Do you think Strauss over-bowled him at Cardiff? It doesn’t matter in the grand scale of his injuries, but it did seem excessive.

Anyway, I had my own attempt at a few words on fred at my blog http://ashesinsomniac.blogspot.com

sahildutta’s last blog post..Freddie Departs…

]]> By: Ceci http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16365 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:12:44 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16365 What a load of rubbish Ottayan – we’ve plenty of liabilities – but Fred’s not been one of them

Nice tribute Jrod

]]> By: Ottayan http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/15/the-end-for-freddie/comment-page-1/#comment-16364 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:48 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6052#comment-16364 Excepting the two years you have mentioned, he has been a liability for England.

Ottayan’s last blog post..Flintoff Quits Tests

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