Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Fantastic Freddie Flintoff



England win second Test to go 1-0 up in The Ashes. Freddie struggled through his obvious knee injury to pick up a 'fivefor' (Katich, Hughes, Haddin, Hauritz, Siddle), his first at Lord's, finishing with figures of 27-4-92-5. It was the first Ashes win for England at Lord's in 75 years.

* Telegraph.co.uk: ...Herculean performance...
* Sydney Morning Herald: Beaten by the man on one knee
'This will be remembered as Flintoff's match. He began it by announcing his retirement from Test cricket; he finished it by revealing, if we didn't already know, how much he will be missed.'