I just finished this post, and then heard Freddie had been sent home because of a dodgy knee.
Bastards, well I’m posting it anyway.
A lot.
No one is getting paid more money than Freddie, and very few are doing less on the field.
His IPL is looking decidedly ordinary.
2 of the worst 3 bowling performances.
His strike rate of 116 is pitiful, and everytime I have seen him bat he has scored more than a few runs to the third man boundary.
He is failing.
It can’t be easy being the top money earner, but at the moment he is playing like 200,000 grand might have been too much.
He is the biggest bust in the IPL by so much even Jacques Kallis is feeling comfortable.
Should we have seen this coming?
I had him as my model for Chennai, reasoning that he was injured and only in town for a limited time.
It gets worse ofcourse
When Freddie played for the world XI he was shit, he had no interest in representing the world.
He loves playing for England and Lancashire.
He strikes me as someone who needs to love the badge on his chest, not sure the Chennai Lion would have that appeal to him.
And it’s showing out on the field.