Freddy Flintoff on Sledging

[heywirebeatbox]

Aussies love sledging even if we're copping it, because you'll get it back eventually :)

[T0MMO11]

Coming from an aussie here but Freddy is a legend..

[leteveryoneknow]

lol at 1:19 are they going to smooch?

[MisterLemonde]

They all get personal and talk dirty about opposition player's wives and girlfriends to get under the skin. Only need to google 'cricket sledges' to see that.

[CFAN123]

i agree sledging is good for cricket, but as long as it doesn't get insulting or personal.

[vchandm23]

One of the greatest nose cut in sledging era is freddy ...... 6 balls 6 sixers from yuvi and the highlight is, broad was the scape goat .......lol

[Flash2910]

im a wicket keeper and have dealt out my fair share of sledging and there is nothing wrong with it as long as its not a blatant insult what happens on the field stays on the field. say what you want about flintoff but he is a sportsmen with good nature and gives it as good as he gets and thats the way it should be. and im an aussie not a pom

[damo24now]

collingwood tried to sledge warnie in his last test. warnie just laughed at him and bagged him for getting an mbe for only scoring 7 runs. it was piss funny

[petertrickaz]

jesus christ, don't show close-ups of Shane Watson please

[5haiHulud]

Carn the Aussies. Keep up the sledging. P.S. Northern accents are better than that cockney shit.

[IndiaRshit]

Aussies Poms kiwis and safas can handle the sledging and use it to test the resolve of the opposition,

Others cannot and only look stupid when they try or start to cry

[Triplesod]

@IndiaRshit Uhmm. So, you are basically saying that the white nations, the Anglo nations can hack it but those of darker skin can't?

You also have "IndiaRshit" for a name, loads of anti Indian stuff in your profile, something about imperialism and you come from Barbados. Let me guess, a white colonial with a family tree in Barbados since pre-1900.

Excuse me for thinking you may just have an agenda here in your antiquated mindset.

[jaxpower1]

@Triplesod nope probably some paki, just chose a random country in hs profile.

[Parrock1]

Sledging is a part of the game at all levels - I've had plenty in club cricket. You just have to ignore it and do your talking with the bat - the oppo can say all they like, what matters is how you play the ball. Freddie is right, sledging is okay if it's not personal. From what I've heard, hi sledging is always about the target's playing abilities and not personal.

[Peeto87]

I have his shoes

[Triplesod]

@Peeto87 Does he know?

[jaxpower1]

@Peeto87 you stole his shoes? that's not very nice.

[Catatofish]

Over-rated. At his best he was very good. His best didn't happen often though. Too injured all the time....his bowling average is higher than his batting average, which means he was well, average. Good personality for the game though.

[bearsiik101]

Flintoff is great at sledging. he pisses off batsmen so much they hit six sixes off the next over. What a legend.

[hassibf]

@bearsiik101 lol....



[BhavyaScruplous]

Freddie....Dont ever think of sledging anybody else now...Broad is yet to recover..dont want the same to happen to Anderson/ Onions/ Sidebottom....LOL..

[itemno1]

sledging is good for cricket!!.. thanks for sledging yuvraj singh in 2020 world cup!!.. you deserve some appreciation flintoff!

[jimimax6969]

wonder how much they pay him

[robDOGZ666]

i like the sledge against dwayne bravo

i love when us aussies sledge, but this guy was just as good

[JimJordan1000]

OUR ALL ROUND MAN!!!

Guess who is sponsored by Puma? LOL

Fucking legend Fred

[nipponbaka]

freddie if he wasnt pommie hed definately play for Australia. theres an art too sledging some players are better at it than others.

[kewellcahill]

Ahh gotta love Freddie. And this coming from an Aussie!

[Sammyy46]

@kewellcahill Ummm... Freddie is English.

[youngrichie]

@Sammyy46 I think you misunderstood. They are an Aussie talking about Freddie!

[doctorosullivan]

@kewellcahill love to hate him :) least he has some spirit in him

[BboyCricket1]

lol look where you are now flintoff like you once said 'the game has a funny way of biting you in the ass'

Peace Out.

[princeofkk]

Yea, look where he is now. Retired and absolutely raking it in from sponsorship and TV. Cunt.

[MTrulez]

I love Flintoff, great player

I sledge all the time for my club team, but it NEVER gets personal (i.e calling the batsmen a black cunt or something like that) I put thought into my sledges

[psyclops222]

Like em or hate em, u ahfta admit, they are a bunch of thorough professionals.. they might lack the superstars they used to have.. but they are still up there.. thats more than i can say for the other two teams aspiring to be number one (SA n Ind).

SA crashed out.. (again!) n India looked mediocre at best! n the were missin just 3 players!..

[psyclops222]

n aussies lost about 5-6 in the last 3-4 years.. but they are still the number one (think they are .. i need to check the latest rankings).

so, davenavarroforpm .. i concur with ur commenst.. although as a cricket enthusiast, am not used to aussies having chances to win, n lettin em slip by..

[carterj25]

i like it because although australia win more, it means so much more to us when we win so we fucking appreciate the moment so much more, and thats why winning an ashes series will always mean more to england even though we win it less

[TheRagnarok1mil]

Don't get us Aussies wrong.

Ever cricket match is important to us, every series we win is great, perhaps as great to us as it is to other countries.

But losing isn't that bad.

If we won the Ashes, I don't think we'd dismiss that like you think we would.

We probably would celebrate much MORE than you...

[psyclops222]

aight fellas.. being a neutral here, leme tell you summin.. aussies were absolutely outplayed in the ashes.. much like they have been lately by a lot of other teams (india, SA.).. but i wouldn't write em just yet.. at least not in the the one days..they might drop to 2 or 3 in the ratings.. but they r still a very very good team.. they just lack the consistency they used to have.. much like england used to, n still does.. the only difference is they are at two very different levels..

[davenavarroforpm]

Absolutely outplayed? No way. Did we deserve to win? No. Did we have opportunities to win it? Yes.

[rokdeamon]

come and sledge sanath u ll never get a way with that

[spook707]

sledged him plenty and beaten him plenty. but he is a great player

[joewilde]

Seriously, you would be a brave person to back them to win against Bangladesh on their soil. It's time for other cricketing nations to shine and Australia will just have to be content with sinking or stagnating, they wont be a force in test cricket for quite some time. Oh, and as for the 'cheating umpire comments', look at the way India was sawn off playing in Aussie last year, it happens and better umpires and more technology is possibly the answer.

[joewilde]

Good game England and congrats on a deserved series win! Australia now slipped to 4th on the Test table and deservedly so, they were outplayed by a weakened English line up and choked in the first innings of the final test. The era of a strong Australian cricket team with good depth has gone for the meantime as they struggle to find a half decent 'consistent' fast bowler and a spinner of worth.

[styx123456]

Armchair cricketers that believe they are accurate, wise pundits that can predict the future of a highly unpredictable game. Nothing funnier.

[kenyarules11]

no, innings and 100 runs is thrashed. btw- shane warne was undeserving of his talent. he endorses fake hair products and is always trying to dismantle players.

[Fernyrocks42]

What does endorsing fake hair products have to do with Cricket LOL.

[00kizuna00]

Ashes are always for aussies!!

Go australia!!

[iceborn999]

Being Aussie I love watching Flintoff play. He is an incredible player and even more so an incredible character on and off the field. I've always wondered how the English felt watching Shane Warne play. Probably similar

[liambannin]

yeh i enjoyed watching shane warne, me being english, i din't like his hair though :-)

[gabrielthetoad]

I'm a fervant English cricket fan and am currently rather depressed - but Shane Warne is my favourite cricketer of all time and it was an honour to be at the MCG to see him get number 700 in 2006.

[superfreddieflintoff]

This is brilliant, nice to see a bit of passion from Freddie, we'll need all the support we can get now he's out of the 4th test... guys let's all support the team...check out 'The Fans Jerusalem' on youtube ... it's hilarious!

[MegaGhettostar]

Hahah flintoffs a champ . safe ..

[cameraygal]

Fred Flintstone is a great player.

But not good enough for England to win a game on Australian soil. 5 nil. damn!

And we didn't even need to use chewing mints, substitute fielders or dodgy physio's. Get some real class England, win without punching below the belt!

[lethal0r]

maybe if we roll the ball to the batsman along the ground?

[cameraygal]

That is a nice call...........but England you must admit are becoming a bit of an embarrassment. Win clean...........or lose with grace. Check out Ponting's speech after the 2nd test. We lose by 100 runs but the umpire gives out 3 of our top five batsmen that the replay showed were not out. You got the luck. See how it ends.

[lethal0r]

its fair to say england have had more luck so far. but at edgbaston swann also had ponting lbw which wasnt given out. what did he do? bowled him out in the same over.

[cameraygal]

There are no second chances for a teams top batters when given out..........What's that smell? Here comes the fourth!

God bless the ashes.

[MrPed61]

Oh yeah? well check out how many bad calls England have had. 3 in this test. It's nothing to do with the team when an umpire gets it wrong. They just appeal. win clean? Australia got thrashed at lords as did the poms in the 4th test. Give the teams a little more credit pal, and don't be so one eyed.

[MrPed61]

100 runs isn't thrashed? OK. Freddie thrashed you. Whichever way you want to spin it, Australia were well beaten, as England were this last test. The bad calls are about even, and even without them in this last test, we would still have lost. Rudi is a good friend of no team mister. you need to grow a sense of fair play. May the best team win at the Oval. Fair enough?

[darthlewis1]

can't you accept that you just lost without giving loads of exscuse's. Why are all you aussie's like this

[andymate999]

we are not all like this! Quite a few of us are unfortunately

Congrats to England on a good series win! Series wasnt as exciting as 2005 however, but i guess it was never going to be.

[MrPed61]

Hitting below the belt? Australia have a record as long as your arm for doing exactly that.

[Boxingbabbie]

why are people gettin so serious its a good rivalry

england and the aussies dont hate each other but they are desperate to beat each other

[G00n3r4Life]

its the longest sporting rivalry in history thats why the rivalry is so fierce

[Boxingbabbie]

i didnt say it wasnt

im saying they dont hate each other its a rivalry never the less

[MrPed61]

axiom50. Sour grapes. You are THE classic example of a fucked up, graceless loser. You wouldn't know if you were shell shocked, shampoed, or arse fucked. Freddie is the perfect example of how juniors should go about their cricket. See edgebaston 2005 you PRAT.

[MrPed61]

Who gives a shit if he isn't captaincy material? He has a huge heart, amazing panache and flair, a personality to die for, and he's a GREAT all rounder. The aussies would kill to have someone like him, then they wouldn't be in such a fucked up state in this series.

[LooKiNKeWeLL]

Flintoff still has the worst England captaincy record in the last 60 years of the ashes.....

[scoregoals]

and your point is? he was captain for only how many games? what does that prove? he was not a good captain, so what?

[LeamingtonSteve]

yes but he was never right for the captaincy- just as Botham wasnt either.

[firecrakka]

Freddy is all class.

Great player and a damn nice bloke.

A true gentleman of the game.

For the record, I'm an Aussie. ; )

[rjshare]

ha ha - fuck off! thats why the first thing he did when we australia lost that test in 2005 was go and console brett lee then was it? a true sportsman who made up for his shortcomings with pure effort.

[hulegukhan]

'Your'? I think you mean you're. Your grammar sets a very poor example to yougsters who may be reading this. Now fuck off you brain dead cunt and learn how to spell.

[tuff1111]

hey fucker correct ur grammer mistake u wrote ( yougsters) its YOUNGSTERS ok im also a AUSSIE

[rockondudes6]

those are nice shoes