Ashes legend Andrew Flintoff is about to stun the cricketing world by signing on because the coach of the Sydney Thunder for the upcoming Massive Bash League season, it has been reported.
Flintoff is within the means of inking a deal which might see him mix with veteran Aussie batter David Warner and upcoming expertise Sam Konstas, in response to News Corp.
The 48-year-old isn’t any stranger to the competitors, having performed for the Brisbane Warmth within the BBL within the 2014/15 season.
Flintoff additionally has teaching expertise after main the England Lions facet since September 2024, and he’s reportedly contracted till January 2027.
The veteran of 79 Assessments would deliver a brand new set of eyes to the competitors and will present an enormous increase for Cricket Australia in its battle to extend the BBL’s reputation.
Flintoff would exchange Trevor Bayliss as Thunder coach after the previous NSW star took the group to the grand closing within the 2024-25 season.
Andrew Flintoff (pictured late final yr) will reportedly be appointed coach of the Sydney Thunder within the Massive Bash League
Signing Flintoff (pictured with spouse Rachael) can be a coup for the BBL
Bayliss departed after the Thunder crashed to complete final within the league in 2023-24 and 2025-26
The England icon has a stable quantity of expertise to attract on.
Flintoff received the function with the Lions after he was made coach of the Northern Superchargers males’s group in England’s The Hundred limited-overs league in 2023.
He has additionally labored as a advisor with England’s limited-overs set-up.
Flintoff’s appointment would elevate eyebrows Down Beneath given many Aussies keep in mind him as an Ashes villain.
He was England’s participant of the sequence when the Three Lions beat the Aussies on dwelling soil in 2005, and was the skipper for the return bout in 2006/2007, when the lads in dishevelled inexperienced took the urn 5 Assessments to nil.
Flintoff performed seven matches for the Brisbane Warmth throughout his time in BBL 04.
He did so after popping out of a five-year retirement from the game to play T20 with Lancashire.
The cricket nice is remembered by many Aussies for enjoying an enormous function in main England to one of many all-time nice Ashes sequence wins in 2005 (pictured)
Flintoff isn’t any stranger to the Massive Bash League after taking part in for the Brisbane Warmth within the 2014-15 season (pictured)
Flintoff, who was often known as a celebration boy in his early taking part in days, made headlines off the sector final yr by opening up in regards to the High Gear accident that just about killed him.
He starred in a documentary about his highway again from the horror crash in December 2022, when the Morgan Tremendous 3 three-wheeled automotive he was driving overturned on the present’s well-known take a look at monitor in Surrey.
‘Because it (the automotive) began going over, I seemed on the floor and I knew, if I get hit right here on the facet [of the head] then I am going to break my neck, or if I get hit on the temple I am lifeless,’ he stated.
‘One of the best probability is to go face down.’
Flintoff made the harrowing admission that the severity of the ache suffered within the midst of the crash made him want for loss of life.
‘I assumed I used to be lifeless, as a result of I used to be aware however I could not see something,’ he stated – realising seconds later his hat had fallen over his eyes.
However as he lifted it up, he seemed all the way down to see blood – and was terrified that he not had a face.
‘I assumed my face had come off. I used to be frightened to loss of life,’ he stated.
