Share this article via comment Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter. More Stories. Today's Best Discounts. Get us in your feed Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter. Flintoff was once run out while batting as he had a Viagra overdose. So I decided I had to put that myth to bed even though I was in the middle of a Test match.
I took three Viagra one night and didn t realise how long they lasted. Trying to bat the next day in that state was not easy. I was run out, simply because I couldn t move.
I could only hop. It wasn t worth it, either. Complete waste of time. Flintoff is a self-confessed Sachin Tendulkar fan. In an interview with Esquire, Flintoff said, When I played against Sachin [Tendulkar], it wasn t a case of just wanting to get him out; I wanted him to walk away thinking I was a good cricketer. I ve said hello to him but I ve never engaged with him in conversation and in some ways I don t want to because I hold him in such high esteem.
I don t know what I d say. He s amazing. He established The Andrew Flintoff Cricket Academy in and claims that by the end of ; over Academies will have hosted nearly 10, boys and girls at over 50 venues nationwide and abroad. He feels that cricket has given him so much, and he wants to pass on his passion of the game to as many youngsters as he can. Post-retirement, Flintoff tried hands at professional boxing.
He got a boxing licence from the Boxing Board of Control and made his pro-debut on November 30, against Richard Dawson. He won the match that happens to be Flintoff s only professional boxing appearance till date. In May , Flintoff came out of retirement to play twenty20 matches for his former club Lancashire. He almost won the T20 blast tournament for his team when in the final of the competition; he dismissed Ian Bell with the ball and hit two sixes in the penultimate over as Lancashire fell just short against Birmingham Bears.
Later that year, he signed up with Brisbane heat in the Big Bash League BBL and played one full season, without making much of an impact and thus pulling down the curtains on his career for good.
A mutual partnership was agreed between Dubai Sports City and Flintoff wherein he could use their gym and facilities as a base for his rehabilitation while in return, he would be carrying out some coaching for the UAE national team over the next six months.
Flintoff has earned numerous awards for his cricketing achievements. Flintoff has been a colourful personality both on and off the field. He returned to commentary during the World Matchplay. In early he also became the face of Morrisons supermarkets. Again earlier this year, he also showed off his butt by posting a nude image of himself through his Twitter account.
The picture was reportedly to be used during the filming of his new Television TV show Flintoff: Lord of the Fries , which was to be broadcasted on the entertainment channel Sky1. Flintoff now resides in Surrey with his wife, Rachael, and their three children, Holly, Corey and Rocky. His son Corey is already showing a fledgling interest in cricket. A self-confessed cricket freak, Chinmay Jawalekar is a senior writer with CricketCountry. When not writing or following cricket, he loves to read, eat and sleep.
Rachael, 40, is a former model and ran her own successful events company Strawberry Promotions from the age of 19 up until The happy couple met in at a cricket ground in Birmingham while Rachael was promoting her business. Three years later, the pair tied the knot and the rest, they say, is history! The TV star has been open in recent years about his battle with depression, and even revealed his wife's reaction to his diagnosis.
I spent a lot of time putting up a barrier playing sport and you tend to play up to that character all of the time, and in the end it got exhausting. I couldn't do it any longer. Freddie and Rachael have four children together. Their first baby was a daughter, Holly, born in Shortly after they welcomed Corey, aged 13, and then another son, Rocky, in In April of this year, the pair then announced that they had welcomed their fourth child, another boy, over the Christmas period.
The year-old even revealed that they named their youngest Preston in tribute to the Lancashire city that Freddie grew up in. Freddie Flintoff and wife Rachael welcomed their fourth son in December. But yeah, we have got another baby and it has been nice spending time with him. The couple's newborn may have come as a welcomed surprise after the Top Gear host previously admitted that he didn't think he and Rachael would have any more children after welcoming Rocky.
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