- Former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff has been praised by Rob Key
- The 2005 Ashes star was named England Lions coach by Key final September
- Flintoff returned to the game after being in a automobile crash whereas filming Prime Gear
Former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff has been praised for ‘making individuals really feel like they’ll conquer the world’ by the staff’s present managing director Rob Key.
Flintoff, 47, returned to the nationwide facet’s setup in 2023, initially on a consultancy foundation, earlier than being handed the England Lions job in September final 12 months.
It marked a exceptional return to the game for a person who suffered severe accidents in a automobile crash that occurred whereas he was filming Prime Gear for BBC in December 2022.
The incident noticed the 2005 Ashes hero having to be airlifted to hospital after he sustained sever facial accidents.
In addition to being England team-mates throughout their respective enjoying careers, Flintoff and Key fashioned a robust friendship off the sphere.
They’ve since reunited in managerial and training roles for England, with Key now having spoken glowingly of the person who turned affectionately referred to as ‘Freddie’ on account of his surname’s similarity with cartoon character Freddie Flintstone.
Andrew Flintoff has been praised for ‘making individuals really feel like they’ll conquer the world’
Flintoff, 47, returned to the game in 2023 after struggling severe accidents whereas filming Prime Gear
The feedback have been made by his former team-mate Rob Key, who’s now England’s Managing Director of Cricket
Chatting with The Telegraph, Key stated: ‘I feel he’d be a superb head coach of England, Andrew Flintoff’.
‘Fred’s received that actual inspiration. He is been there, he is accomplished it. He understands what he says.
‘He is extra like Brendon McCullum, the place he understands what you are going by way of.
‘So if you communicate to Fred about gamers, you get a rundown actually on not simply them because the participant, however what they’re actually like, what they are going by way of, what they assume, you already know, which is absolutely essential.
‘He makes individuals really feel like they’ll conquer the world actually. And he does it in a refined means. You’ll be able to’t simply inform individuals ”you might be nice”’.
England have regarded a reinvigorated facet since McCullum turned their head coach in 2022, successful 23 of 36 Take a look at matches in that point.
However they face a decisive 12 months as they face two of the highest sides on this planet over the following six months, beginning with dwelling Take a look at sequence in opposition to India which begins on Friday.
They are going to then face arguably the largest process in all of English cricket as they journey to Australia for an away Ashes sequence over the winter – having not even gained a Take a look at Down Beneath since their well-known 3-1 sequence victory in 2010-11.
