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  • This was Flintofff's finest hour-I was at the Egd this day and what he did with the bat/ball that day was incredible- dont think I will ever see something like this reapeated,atomosphere was electric,the way one bloke dominated a days play,and on top of that the Harmison slower ball that took out Clarke at the end of the days play,if Clarke had been there sunday morning-2-0 to Oz,also if McGrath had played Eng would of lost,throughout this series the luck went Englands way-this day won the Ashes

  • freddy is a great cricketer but fuck me hes a tosser

  • I'm Australian... We were beaten fair and square... But!... We were Incredibly unlucky... The amount of bad decisions we had against us, at such important times.... And I'm not trying to make excuse so don't take this the wrong way! But Australia were the better side in the recent ashes series, But England had help from the weather and alot of help from the umpires at times. But in the deciding match england played the better cricket, and the australian selectors misread the pitch.

  • av it !!!!!!

  • There aren't many bowlers who can make Ponting look like a total chump.

  • Edgbaston 2005 and Lords 2009

    Flintoff on fire!

  • awesome. ponting hadn't a clue.

  • i don't think that you can rely on figures to tell freddie's story...look how many times he took 3 or 4 important wickets...5 wicket hauls aren't everything. he got three 5 wicket hauls in his test career which i agree isnt a great amount, but he frightened batsmen and like i said, took the important wickets. gameboys2020 is absolutely right, freddie was deadly then and this ashes series, he still won the game at lords with his 5 wickets in an innings which goes to show he still was at the end.

  • I'd second that, All rounders don't have to hit Centuries or take 5 wickets to leave their mark on the game however more often than not he would take 5 wickets and make 100 runs in a whole match and something to consider is that the start of Flintoffs test career was slow, between 2003-2005 he was a GREAT all rounder and in recent times he's been plagued by injury, never reaching the same level he was then. when he was on song he must've averaged mid-high twenties with ball and 40 with willow

  • he is better bowler than most of current bowlers + he got ability to swing both sides even better than lee & co .

  • he might not be that good but the atmosphere that he brings on when he bowls and bats is match winning

  • way over rated. i love the effort he puts in, he tries hard and gets in amongst it but his overall figures arent that gr8. never got 10 wickets in a match and only once did he get 5 in an innings if i recall. hardly mind boggling.

  • are you serious?

    yes the figures aren't great but he wins games, he's won games for england with both bat and ball, to be hounest i see that as much more important than being like ian bell who has a nice looking batting average but rarely puts in match winning performances

  • As an aussie watching.. great man, great series.. 2009 was great too,,. freddie good talent and aura.

    Is it me, or does freddie flintoff always look like he got laid 5 minutes ago?

  • Nice job Flintoff! Will miss those great test cricket moments!

  • He could have got anyone out with that over. One of the best ever.

  • incredible bowler, proud to call him ours

  • now who says 'no ball' is bad for the bowling side!!

  • no ball - one more extraa ball to get the batsmen out im told every week. how true :)

  • Optimum use of de extra ball...

  • That's how you make up for an extra ball.

  • I'm Australian but have a huge amount of respect for this man. What a competitor!

  • he's a legend

  • Flintoff, wot a legend! Thanks for the memories!

  • its a shame to see him leaving test cricket...

    he is always a joy to watch

  • 100% agreed.well said vanhelsin328

  • And don't forget Ponting was the best batman in the world at the time. In that over of a lifetime Freddie would have got anyone out -anyone in the history of cricket.

  • sry auckland37. ponting was never the best batsmen in the world.yeah he is great no doubt but not the best. flintoff was absolute deadly at that time.

    to be frank the best series ever.

  • the reason that freddie never took as many wickets as he should have is because batsmen just couldn't hit his deliveries. lesser bowlers get more edges and the batters feel like going for them more often

  • 100% agreed.well said.

  • cheers

  • doesnt take huge amounts of wickets, he is mainly a spell bowler who contains certain batsman and gets key wickets. freddy well miss you !

  • i agree, his better than his stats suggest, i think he'd be increadibly hard to face, hes like a glenn mcgrath thats 15km/h faster

  • great allrounder

  • Freddie got an MBE in 2005 so he's in line for a Knighthood.

  • Its very unusual for someone to be honoured twice.

  • i dont like him but he is a top bowler

  • "That'll get 'em going..."

    "That has gott'em going..."

    Perfect!

  • sad that he had to retire because of the

    problem down below

  • FREDDY FLINTOFF THE MAN

  • We'll miss Freddy in test cricket.

  • Sends a shiver down the spine to see this again. Wonderful.

  • Ricky Ponting got owned by Flintoff again!

  • you know where the run iut 2009 is? need to see it again

  • Congrats on the ashes victory boys. In the end, your team deserved the win. Just know that in 2 years time we will be gunning for another 5 - 0 series.

  • its was meant to be though flintoff's last test and they win the ashes it was written in the stars.

    freddie for a knighthood

  • massive respect to that gracious comment man :)

  • freddy mintoff

  • Come on people. I'm English and I'm absolutely delighted to have stuffed the Ozzies, but let's drop the abuse.

    I like most of the Australians I have met and I like Australia. I also like beating them at cricket so let's taunt them like they deserve but forget the yobbish insults.

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  • thankyou freddie,i will always remember you you will alway be in our harts

  • oh how we love, our all round man, his bear drinking, his chain smoking, his gorgeous wife, his slip catching, his seam bowling his six hitting.. ohohohho.. freddie flintoff, freddie freddie flintoff, freddie flintoff, freddie freddie flintoff

  • HAHA WHERE ARE THE ASHES?

  • ENGLAND!

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  • ouch! the first one hits the batter in the elbow

  • Great bloke! a good laugh as well. (He's my cousin by the way)

  • goodbye yuu aussie wankers ! go suck on pontings knob u silly pricks ! Gdayy !

  • ohhh I love u!!!!

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  • Who won The Ashes? sorry I haven't been in to watch it.

  • England!!!

  • England, we got about 3 wickets in 10 minutes towards the end and bell caught out Hussey in the last ball.

  • :D:D

    Back where the Ern belongs!! :D

  • Sorry, it wasnt bell who caught Hussey out, it was Cook.

    And yeah! Hopefully we'll win next time aswell. :)

  • I'll give Flintoff the respect he deserves, would be first picked in most if not all world test teams. The thing i admire most is he is actually an englishman and not some second rate south african that you claim as your own.

  • I can't imagine how Ponting survived even those few balls before getting out with that atmosphere, thats what flintoff does for england.

  • I think Swann's over against him at Edgbaston 2009 was better, first ball played and missed, the next few were defended, then an LBW appeal and then finally clean bowled him. It was amazing to watch how Swanny turned it out the rough..

  • he can do better i think

  • its good not best at all

  • Ponting knew how good this over was, you can see it in his face as he walks away

  • he's gay

  • i want english, aussies domination in cricket leaving th rest...

  • gwensbackpack is really a fucked up bitch eh?

  • freddie what can u say hes the greatest!!! and from preston too my home town,we need him in his last ever test match they cannot not play him..

  • Hi all, Freddie here - If you've got a spare second, why not check out mine and Rachael's childrens charity, the AF Foundation. Our You Tube channel is AF Foundation or you even follow us on Twitter, username AFFoundation - Many thanks x

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  • Truly magnificent

  • hahaha 1-1 hopeless poms cant even win at there own game

  • * Their

  • What do you mean can't win? We won at lords, or were you on another planet then?

  • when you aussies create a sport the world enjoys, come back and comment to me, till then, stick with your australian rules football... aka we're shit at normal football, let's add our own rules

  • no, we were sick of people diving whenever they get touched so we made a hard contact sport

  • That's a very weak reply. Why don't you try Rugby and see if you beat us at that. Although, I think you would be more suited to American Football as that has specific rules for a specific country - your favourite!

  • the last time we played you at rugby john6wanks we destroyed you 28-14.

    and i believe the last time we played you at your beloved fairyball, we humiliated you 3-1.

    justin langer hit the mark, but as you know and the world knows, it's really a reflection of the whole english population

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  • English found Australia.

    End of Story.

  • no they didnt you stupid cunt

  • Yes we fucking did you piece of shit .. cunt? hahahah yeah good one you fucking convinct, your owned by us! pussy

  • even adelaide? and you discovered australia ? and im an aboriginal

  • why do you live in a country where you are racially abused by convicts go live in fiji or new zealand evetually you'll get attacked or mugged. you might have been already

  • what are you on about ?

  • Maybe, But your mistake was sending us out to paradise while you all stayed in that gloomy, wet shitbox you call home. You should have left the convicts in england and moved out here yourselves.hahahahahahahaha

  • We call home? well that doesn't even make sense, and btw Australia is bottom of the list of where I'd like to go :)

  • good! we need less pricks like you over here, oh does the prospect of sun and great weather frighten you?

  • u mean aus which is 87% desert! so big theres fuckall there except fat people! yeah aus is 2nd fattest nation on earth, pretty worrying concidering the population of aus LOL 2ndly wheres aus near thats of any importance? so stick ur weather up ur imbred colonial shackle dragging arse ya cretin, don t forget aus never officialy ever gained independence! queens still head of ur desert open prison country! she can take it fucking back! , oh and as i type we regain the ashes , owned!

  • rather 87% desert to 100% shit

  • ...That nobody else wants to play except some drunk aussies.

  • that search isn't right, search 'ecbcricket fans' jerusalem' it's brilliant! come on boys!

  • Hope Freddie's knee gets better for the final test, boy we need him! check out 'The Fans Jerusalem' on youtube cos we all need to get behind the boys without him! it's brilliant!

  • Ye well i know he isnt 100% fit but i think freddie isnt as good as he used to be if i was stauss i wud leave freddie out of bowling and use Onions, Swann, Broad and Anderson to bowl and just leave freddie to bat and feild.

  • Freddie owns Pontin.

  • I wonder if Fred's got a grower or a shower.

  • probably the best fast bowler in the last 20years

    ON HIS DAY

  • and if playing england, on a swinging pitch, when things are going well.

    otherwise, well, he's just another pommie pie thrower a la 5 - 0 in the last ashes series.

  • what?

    pomme or not hes a world class player and because england are inconsistent but things can change 5-0 who cares england won one of the best ashes series in history thats better than any other recent australian ashes win

  • You aussies are a pile of shit now, face it. without warne, mcgrath, hayden and langer you are nothing.

    granted, in the first test you batted well. but fucking hell, your bowlers (apart from hilfenhaus) are SHIT.

    Mitchell Johnson is the biggest joke going.

    i can't wait to see the look on that smarmy twat ponting's face when we win this series.

  • The English bowlers showed in the second innings at Edgbaston that they are a pile of shit when the ball doesn't swing for them.

  • what about the autrailians mitchell johnson best bowler in the world looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­l nuff said

  • hmm 1 -0 mate

  • yes mate...1-0...but only cos of the swinging ball. If you had the exact same teams play in Australia right now, England would still lose.

  • but we're not playing in australia are we? its irrelevant where we play. we're 1-0 up even without kp and freddie only 15% fit. face it the aussies are in decline big time.

  • Oh yeah Australia is in decline...no doubt about that.

    But they're still better than England at the moment when the ball isn'ty swinging. the aussies might in in decline, but the English are in denial. Mother nature 1, Australia 0.

  • Haha idiot. The aussies had very similar conditions to bowl in and didn't take advantage. It might be the fact they only have one bowler (Hilfenhaus) who looks remotely capeable.

  • LeonTrodski, we'll see what happens at Headingley...you don't know about Stuart Clark do you?

  • Allawahguy. Suck us off! Soundly beaten. On your way.

  • Congratulations Leon Trodski. We lost. You doctored the Oval pitch to get a result, but we will accept that.

    You know you ain't gonna beat us in Australia next year on undoctored pitches and not much swing. Just you watch...

  • I'm an Australian and even I know that we were beaten fair and square. Back then, England were the side to beat I believe. With overs like this, what can you do? It was a great series and that's that.

  • I think you are actually stupid, you do relise that BOTH teams had to use that pitch. Think about what you say before you say it.

  • Typical aussie looser..! Everybody beats you now, Indians, South Africans, and now even the POMS have your number... SUCK ON IT.. YOU LOOSER

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  • You can't even spell properly, Kingpin. You're the LOSER!

  • Is that all you could come up with... Ponting is that you.?

  • Kingpin, dont call us "everybody"

    South Africa is No.1 Team in the word, India is No.2 . England comes far below.

  • South afrcia are rated 'no.1' But england totally destoryed them yesterday mate.

  • huh..?

  • What a sore loser..!! SUCK IT UP you loser

  • hahah, you'll see what happens next year when you come to Australia.

  • I am not from England but i favour of England ... I want to see Australins loosing Ashes wow!!! Australia is and Ordinary team now .... They should play against small teams UAE, Kenya, Zambabwe etc to get some practice. They Unfit to face any proper team now

  • I can tell you're not English. You can't even spell. You've just absolutely butchered the English language, you retard.

  • you're a dick. remember 5-0 in 07/08? And oz beat SA in SA. Still ranked number one. Yeah warne is gone (the greatest leg spinner of all time), but oz are still putting up more of a fight away than england could manage in oz. 5-0, remember?

  • england had many injuries in 06/07. vaughan injured, trecothick ill, etc. but to be honest australia were too good in 06/07. england are too good now just like in 2005. we're 1-0 up even without kp and freddie only 50% fit. face it the aussies are in decline big time.

  • you fuckin poms he is not a legend by far.. so dont hype that dog up mate..cause australia is the land where legends are bor..not u all fucking poms.

  • cricket is represented with a world class nation from every continent in the world, maybe we should have a world series like the americans. isawyouwhore you are a dogtoucher! go somewhere else much missed.....warne mcgrath vaugh sjones langer and the banger mtrescothic and the king of spain

  • isawyouwhore, mate u are the biggest fucking joke i have ever read. let me guess, u live in america? what a fucking suprise. fucking retard. Calling freddie flintoff a limie is blasphemy, at least we dont have players arrested for dogfighting, fucking roided up NFL players, AKA twats.

  • i would runaway if he bowled at me haha .. he is an immense bowler though

  • Mrak Nicholos & Richie Benaud-Golden voices-apt for the over

  • Ponting didn't have a fucking clue here.

  • "Isawyouwhore"

    You Sir, are a total fucking Cock Nozzle.

  • Its spelt Limey you retard.......and yep its a great sport many other countries in the world play..... unlike your shitty baseball!!

  • Yes its called cricket you cretin its played all around the world and requires a great deal of understanding and skill to play qualities that you clearly lack.

  • For lsawyou whore - Cricket the 3rd most watched sport in the world next to Association Football (aka football - aka soccer) and surprisingly, Basketball as 2nd. If you live in an insular world, with closed, local TV companies dicating your viewing, you will always live in a cotton-wool, false-living life.

    Open up and embrace the rest of the world and accept different cultures with understanding instead of ridiculing it.

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  • Isawyouwhore

    your a dickhead mate

    what are you an american

    go fuck yourself

  • He only bothers in the most pressurised of situations. Most tests he can't be arsed. that's why the Aussies fear him. Best bowler in the World on his day.

  • so he obviously can't be arsed whenever he's playing ouside england or more specifically, being gimp bitch slapped 5-0 in the last series.

  • Piss off me old possum.

  • That was to gwens back passage by the way.

  • Is Flintoff  from working class?

  • No, just class

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  • much more effort being a strike bowler plus he can bast a bit as well,no strain on warnys knees in his career only strain he got was from texting his bints while away from the missus

  • if thats the so called 'great" flintoffs best ever over, england hasnt got much to show for 130 years of test cricket. ever heard of a guy called shane warne, over 750 test wickets or glenn mgrath, who took 8/38 at lords. please. absolutely pathetic.

  • warne and mcgrath are legends....but this indeed was a great over..give freddie his due

  • wat else has australia got to be proud about, ralph harris? tim cahill is a legend of corse, but apart from that?

  • Their meat pies to go with all the chips on their shoulders.

  • THIS ISNT SPORT

  • SO WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS

  • how the hell is this wrong? it was a magic over

  • Freddie has had some great moments but he is not one of the greats.The Edgbaston crowd,now they're great !I'll be there myself this week - can't wait

  • Yes that 5th wkt haul at Lords was his first in 4 years and also first at LORDS. people still considers him a legend LOL

    In his entire cricket career he has never taken 10 wickets in Domestic or International Level.

  • he is the best english cricketer at the moment. its a shame he is going to quit test cricket. i love the way he makes crowd alive u will be missed Freddie!

  • which test was this?

  • The Second. At Edgbaston. England won by 2 Runs.

  • Most over rated cricketer i have ever seen. all he does is knock over tail enders and get MOMs.

    Anderson is better he took top 4 wickets. All proper batsmen.

  • erm slight problem, he got rid of ponting, langer in one over, at least he can bat a bit and get the ball round peoples ribcages

  • I agree. What i fail to understand is this guy averages 32 and still hes in headlines everywhere, media did not care to mention any other players name who contributed to englands win at Lords.

    Swann 4 Wickets

    Anderson 4 Wickets

    Strauss 161 & 32

    Cook 95 & 32

    What Andrew does is take 2 tail enders 1 wicket keeper and 2 wickets that shouldnt have been given and walks away with Man of The match award.

    English media is so impressed by his performance they have forgotten other 10 players.

  • if you judge players off the back of career stats then you need to find a new sport. they do not tell the whole story, they do not tell you that he was picked way before he was worthy of international cricket, skewing his stats.

    at his peak between 03-06 he was scoring his runs at 40 an innings and taking his wickets at 27/28 a wicket.

    if you're interested in stats look more into them and don't be so stupid as to be fooled by career stats.