Samira Vishwas
Tezzbuzz|04-07-2025
Andrew Flintoff was an expensive player than Dhoni in the IPL. After retirement from cricket, he tried to go to WWE but had to leave due to injury. Then also won the victory of boxing. Now he is the coach of England Lions and has returned to cricket.
Delhi: Not of the future, even the generation of today’s cricket lovers may not know how Andrew Flintoff of England was a cricketer? It would be enough to tell him in his introduction that if his international cricket career (which ran from around 1998 to 2009), he could have been one of the highest earning players. Even then, in the auction in 2009, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bought him, according to that time, as the most expensive cricketer of the season for Rs 7.61 crore and then MS Dhoni’s Celery was Rs 6 crore. He was not fully fit and played only 3 matches, scored 62 runs at a strike rate of 117 and took 2 wickets.
In comparison, international cricket is better introduction, in which 3845 runs in 79 Tests and 3394 runs in 141 ODIs, while 7 T20 Internationals were played in the last round. Was one of the players to popularize cricket. Even today, he is one of the news because of cricket, but there was another fun discussion with his name in the midst of these two rounds. He also became famous in WWE and Boxing. While cricketers are playing golf, coaches and commentators are made, they went to the dreadful games like WWE and Boxing.
When he retired from cricket at the age of 31, he started thinking about the career ahead. Was a strong body and was famous for his strong body. On the question of further career in a TV show, he took the name of WWE and just looking at this, at that time, WWE boss Vince McMahon himself called him to join the WWE. The first match also told that in England, it will be from Undertaker in Manchester. A huge amount was offered for 3 years contract and also said that in 18 months you will be in WrestleMania and Royal Rumble. It was decided that they would go for weight gain and special training. The new name was given Big Fred.
WWE left boxing
They went, killed a lot in two days of training, thrown, bones were broken and the condition of the body was that the family felt that they would never be able to recover. Flintoff, however, listened to the children who wanted to play cricket and did not want to go to America. That is why WWE left and went into boxing. This is around 2012. In December 2012, in his heavyweight boxing debut, Flintoff won the second round over American Richard Dawson. Flintoff soon realized how dangerous these games are. He suffered a big injury and the story is over.
After that Flintoff went to TV and worked in various shows away from cricket for about 10 years. When this show was in Bij, a life leva car became an accident. It took several months to fit and it was such an accident that the face deteriorated. Then finally the same game was caught again which gave everything. Returned to cricket. England is the coach of Lions (eg India A team) and the interesting thing is that his son Rocky Flintoff is also in this team. 16 -year -old Rocky holds a record of making 100 in a tour match against Cricket Australia XI. Even Flintoff was linked to the training of the Senior Test team before the Edgbaston Test against India. In this way, England are returned to the set-up.
He is not currently thinking about replacing Brendon McCullum, but there is no dearth of believers in England that England has started preparing an option for any need. England was thinking of bringing Flintoff in the role of white-ball coach, even after removing Matthew Mot a year ago, but later gave the responsibility of England Lions.