Gifted Freddie Gave Everything for the Cause -- And I Salute Him [Edition 2]

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SO THIS, then, is to be Freddie Flintoff 's last summer as a Test cricketer. After multiple operations and gruelling rounds of pain- killing injections, the hulking all-rounder was finally broken on what Steve Harmison, speaking of the wicket at Cardiff 's Sophia Gardens, called yet another "chief executive's pitch". What he meant was that it was flat and inert, prepared to last five days to keep the money men happy.

If Test cricket is a dying game, as some such as West Indies captain Chris Gayle would have it -- and when you look beyond England and an Ashes series you see only matches around the world being played in near-empty stadia -- the loss of its greatest and best-loved entertainer may hasten the onset of its terminal phase.

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Gifted Freddie Gave Everything for the Cause -- And I Salute Him [Edition 2]

Test cricket has for too long now been a batsman's game and, as a consequence, a duller one. Where now are the great fast bowle...

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