Ashes Team Toast Win but Freddie Pulls Stumps Early ; Barmy Day Cricket Fans Celebrate England's Victory Over Australia in Final Test

Evening Standard - London › August 24, 2009

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THE last time England won the Ashes, Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff drank. And drank. And drank. Then he drank some more in the course of a now famous 24-hour celebratory bender.

Four years on and four years older and perhaps wiser, he was tucked up in bed by 1am. "I am going to bed. I'm too old for this now," the 31-year-old said as he clambered into the lift at the team hotel and headed for his room.

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Ashes Team Toast Win but Freddie Pulls Stumps Early ; Barmy Day Cricket Fans Celebrate England's Victory Over Australia in Final Test

All he had managed was a mere seven hours of boozing after a victory at the Oval that had one tabloid newspaper today demanding he...

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