Andrew Flintoff
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Full name | Andrew Flintoff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Preston, Lancashire, England | 6 December 1977|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Freddie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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Test debut (cap 591) | 23 July 1998 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 20 August 2009 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 154) | 7 April 1999 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 3 April 2009 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 2) | 13 June 2005 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 19 September 2007 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1995–2009, 2014 | Lancashire (squad no. 26) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | Chennai Super Kings (squad no. 11) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014/15 | Brisbane Heat (squad no. 26) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Weight(s) | Heavyweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total fights | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Losses | 0 |
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff
Following his debut in 1998, Flintoff became an integral player for
Since his retirement, Flintoff has been involved with numerous projects, including designing his own fashion range and becoming the face of clothing brand Jacamo, winning the first series of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and being part of Sky One's sports-based comedy panel show A League of Their Own. Flintoff became a presenter of the BBC One car show Top Gear in 2019, remaining with the programme until he sustained an accident during filming in late 2022.
Early life
Flintoff's father, Colin, was a plumber and factory maintenance worker and the captain of Dutton Forshaw second XI cricket team. Flintoff attended Greenlands Community Primary School and Ribbleton Hall High School (subsequently renamed City of Preston High School).[3] His first trip abroad at age 14 was to Argentina.[4]
During his school days he acquired the nickname "Freddie" due to his surname resembling that of the cartoon character Fred Flintstone.[5]
At City of Preston High School, he passed nine GCSEs, but he did not want to stay in education and left school at 16. As a boy, he played cricket for the Lancashire Schools under-11s and under-15s teams and he was also a keen chess player.[6] He then played for two and a half years in the England under-19 cricket team.[7]
Professional career
Early years: criticism, injury and fitness troubles
Flintoff was captain of the England Under-19 team for their "Test" match tour to
In 2000, he hit 135 not out in the quarterfinals of the
Although he lost his England place during 2001, he remodelled his bowling action and gained a place on the 2001–02 tour to
Improved consistency, step-up to key international player
In 2002, he scored his maiden Test century against New Zealand. By 2003, a newer, fitter Flintoff started to justify the comparisons with
Although injury prevented him from bowling, he was called into the England squad for the 2004 NatWest
He matched this haul in the Second Test against the West Indies at
At the end of the season he was named as the inaugural winner of the ICC Award for one-day player of the year, and the Professional Cricketers' Association player of the year. He also became a father when his fiancée Rachael Wools gave birth on 6 September. They now have a second child who was born during the series in India in 2006. Flintoff briefly returned home from the tour to see his son for the first time.[13][14][15]
2005: Ashes winner
Following the Test series in
In the Second Test against Australia at Edgbaston in August 2005, he broke Ian Botham's 1981 record of six sixes in an Ashes Test Match with five in the first innings, and a further four in the second innings: he scored 141 runs in total. In the same game he took a total of seven wickets (across both innings), including the wickets of Langer and Ponting in his first over in Australia's run-chase. He managed all this despite a shoulder injury early in the second innings. England won the game by just two runs, and saved their hopes of regaining the Ashes. Flintoff was named 'Man of the Match' and captain Michael Vaughan subsequently dubbed the match "Fred's Test" in honour of his achievement.
Flintoff scored a century during England's crucial win at Trent Bridge. He took five wickets on the fourth day of the final Test match, enabling England to go off for bad light and helping them eventually to secure a draw and regain the Ashes.
For his achievements throughout the
In October 2005, Flintoff shared the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC player of the year award with Jacques Kallis of South Africa. In December 2005, Flintoff was crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2005, the first cricketer since Botham in 1981. In the New Year's Honours List for 2006, Flintoff was appointed an MBE for his role in the successful Ashes side. In January 2006, Flintoff was presented with the Freedom of the City award for Preston, Lancashire. The award was presented to Flintoff by the mayor of Preston. Other recipients of the award include Sir Tom Finney and Nick Park.
England captaincy
In February 2006 following England captain Michael Vaughan and vice-captain Marcus Trescothick becoming unavailable for the first Test match against India, Flintoff was named captain of the England team and subsequently announced that he would be staying in India for the entire Test series, although he and his wife were expecting their second child. His wife gave birth to a son, Corey, shortly before the second Test on 9 March.[16]
On the field, Flintoff was seen as a great success during the drawn series with India, with a 212-run victory in Mumbai. His contributions with both bat and ball ensured that he was named as the player of the series, with many commentators seeing Flintoff as someone who not only worked better under the responsibility but was also viewed as a great influence of an inexperienced side, which included many debutants, such as Alastair Cook, Owais Shah and Monty Panesar. Flintoff amassed four fifties in the series, and took 11 wickets, on unfriendly surfaces for seamers. Flintoff continued to captain England during the seven ODIs in India, although he was rested for two matches. Sri Lanka toured in May and England drew the three-Test series 1–1. The series took a heavy toll on Flintoff physically, and journalist David Hopps remarked:
By the end of the series, Flintoff was also a crock, succumbing to a further ankle injury that put his role in the winter's Ashes in doubt. Could this be traced back to the opening Test at Lord's when, in his first serious bowl of the season, and somewhat above his fighting weight, he bowled an excessive 68.3 overs and nothing above 85mph? He had gone from shock bowler to stock bowler – under his own captaincy, too.[17]
A recurrence of his long-term ankle problem in the Test series meant Flintoff missed both the ODI series against Sri Lanka, and the first Test against Pakistan. It was later announced in July that Flintoff's rehabilitation had not been sufficient to quell the injury, and that further surgery would be required. He was thus ruled out for the entire series against Pakistan. Despite injury concerns, Flintoff was later named for the ICC Champions Trophy, where he played as a specialist batsman, not as an all-rounder.
2006–07 Ashes series
After his previous stint as captain in the Test series against India, Flintoff returned as captain of the England team for the eagerly anticipated
Flintoff's own play in the 2006–07 series, both bowling and at the crease, was generally deemed disappointing. He made only two scores over 50 in the series, his best bowling figures were 4–99 in the first innings of the First Test in Brisbane, and he failed to take five wickets in a match. Flintoff played in only one first-class game in the lead up to the series. He was initially undone by Australia's excellent seam bowling but his batting improved throughout the series as he got more match practice. A persistent ankle injury prevented Flintoff from bowling long spells at full pace and Australia's batsmen took advantage of this. According to Nasser Hussain during the tour he also had three or four warnings for inappropriate behaviour and binge drinking,[18][19] including arriving hung over for a training session.[20]
Flintoff also captained England for several of the subsequent 2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series One Day International matches. Michael Vaughan's return from knee surgery was cut short by a hamstring injury and he was only able to play two matches, leaving Flintoff in charge for the remaining games. England qualified in the last game of eight group matches for the best-of-three finals against Australia, but reversed their poor form on tour with a 2–0 series win in the finals.
Flintoff contributed significantly with the ball in both matches, taking three wickets in the first match and allowing only 10 runs off five overs in the second as Australia chased a reduced total in a rain-hit match.
2007 Cricket World Cup
With
In the opening match of the tournament against
Flintoff returned to the England team for the last group match against
2007–09: Injuries, comeback, and retirement
Flintoff returned for a couple of games with Lancashire, in preparation for the West Indies tour of England but he re-injured his ankle and was ruled out for the first Test which started on 17 May 2007. Having undergone another operation on the troublesome ankle, he missed the whole Test and one-day series against the West Indies, and was also ruled out for the subsequent Test series with India.[26] Following several games for Lancashire, Flintoff returned for England in the first of seven ODIs against India on 21 August 2007. He bowled seven overs and ended with figures of one for twelve in England's 104-run victory. He hit an eventful nine runs during the second ODI; however, while fielding, he injured his knee and sat out England's 42-run victory in the third ODI.[27] He returned for the fourth ODI on 30 August.[28] Flintoff missed England's two narrow defeats to India in the fifth and sixth ODIs before taking 3–45 in the seventh, helping England to win the series four-three with a seven-wicket victory.
Flintoff's ankle injury recurred during the end of the 2007 season, and, although he played in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, he did not accompany the England squad to Sri Lanka, and a fourth operation made it highly unlikely that he would play again before the summer of 2008, missing both the Sri Lankan Test Series and the 2008 tour of New Zealand.[29] Flintoff remained "upbeat" about his career, however.[30]
Flintoff was back in action for Lancashire early in the 2008 season, but a side strain ruled him out of contention for the home series against New Zealand. After again returning to action in county cricket he was recalled to the England squad for the second Test against South Africa, where he missed the last 17 Tests prior. He took his 200th Test wicket in the Third Test, trapping Neil McKenzie lbw for 72. Flintoff bowled consistently against the South Africans, but South African coach Mickey Arthur felt that he was too defensive.[31] His batting also began to show promise as he consistently made starts, before being moved back up to bat at six when Kevin Pietersen took over as captain. In the following one day series, Flintoff was an important player for England, leading Pietersen to describe him as "a superstar". Flintoff scored 78 in both the first and the third matches – he was not required to bat in the second – as well as 31 not out off 12 balls in the fourth, whilst taking three wickets in the same match. This led many pundits to speculate that Flintoff might just be back to his best. He won Man of the Series in the ODI home series against South Africa, where England won four-nil: the last match was washed out. He was both the top run-scorer and the top wicket-taker of that series. Still, though, his want of consistency frustrated the pundits. "Flintoff," wrote Peter Roebuck some time later, "is a fine cricketer who has never quite worked out how he takes wickets or scores runs. Torn between hitting and playing, pounding and probing, he has performed below his highest capabilities."[32]
On England's tour of India, Flintoff started the series well. In the first warm-up match against the Mumbai Cricket Association, he scored exactly 100. It was his first century for England since the Fourth Test of the
In February 2009, the
However, speculation over Flintoff's form ahead of the much-awaited 2009 Ashes series died down as he took six wickets in his first match back for Lancashire and left "several county batsmen...nursing bruised ribs and fingers". He also collected a half-century against Hampshire, although he was still yet to register a century in either domestic cricket or any form of the international game since that
On 15 July 2009, Flintoff announced he would retire from Test cricket at the end of the
On 16 September 2010, Flintoff retired from all forms of professional cricket, having consulted medical advisers.[1] He continued to play recreationally for Penwortham Cricket Club alongside his brother Chris Flintoff.[40]
2014–present: Twenty20 comeback and second retirement
Flintoff came out of retirement in May 2014, returning to Lancashire to play Twenty20 only.[41] He featured in the final of the competition, dismissing Ian Bell with the ball and hitting two sixes in the penultimate over as Lancashire fell just short against Birmingham Bears. After this season he was signed by the Brisbane Heat in the Australian Big Bash League for the 2014–15 season. Flintoff disappointed on the field, ending the season with a high score of 46, with only one other score in double figures (15), along with three wickets at an average of 45.33.[42]
He had an on-field microphone for most matches and memorably sang "
His newfound popularity in Australia enabled him to win the first series of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
On 9 September 2023, Andrew Flintoff made a public appearance in an England coaching kit, taking charge of the team's fielding drills during their inaugural One Day International (ODI) encounter against New Zealand in Cardiff. This marked Flintoff's first public sighting since a serious accident while filming for Top Gear the previous December. He has been extended an invitation to be with the team, although he holds no formal coaching position. He is slated to accompany the England side throughout the four-match ODI series. However, it appears unlikely that he will join the squad for the upcoming World Cup in India.
Records and achievements
- Flintoff is the third highest English wicket-taker in one-day international cricket with 168 wickets,ICC World XI.
- He is also the ninth highest English run-scorer in one-day internationals, with a total of 2,975.
- Flintoff was Lancashire's winner of the NBC Denis Compton Award in 1997.
- Flintoff holds third place in the list of most sixes scored for England in test cricket, behind Mohalion 11 March 2006.
- Flintoff is only the seventh player to have batted on all five days of a Test match, achieving this feat at Mohali, in the same match in which he broke the sixes record.[44]
- He is one of only ten players to be on both the batting and bowling honours boards at Lord's.[45]
Media career
In March 2010, Flintoff became a team captain on the
As of 2011 Flintoff was named as a brand ambassador for big men's fashion brand Jacamo and had his own range produced in 2012. In early 2011 he also became the face of Morrisons supermarkets.
Flintoff also produced a documentary entitled Freddie Flintoff: Hidden Side of Sport, about his and other sports stars' suffering of clinical depression. This was first aired on
Flintoff was a judge on the ITV talent show Let's Get Gold in 2012.
In 2014, Flintoff made a cameo appearance in Sky TV series, Trollied. In the same year, he also appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Deal or No Deal.
On 15 February 2015, Flintoff entered the first Australian series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, held in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. Entering on Day 17 of the series, he was crowned "King of the Jungle" after winning the series on 15 March 2015 after spending 29 days in the jungle. He was also a commentator for Network Ten's Big Bash League coverage and appeared as a regular panellist on their current affairs show The Project.
In 2014, Flintoff started the Sky One TV series Flintoff: Lord of the Fries, touring around the UK exploring the places, people and food with co-host Rob Penn. The series was aired from 2015,[48] the second series (2016) was titled "Freddie Fries again". In December 2016, Flintoff and Penn took the series to Australia titled "Freddie Fries Down Under" AKA "Freddie Down Under"[49] with challenges along the way.
Along with close friend and former Blackburn Rovers captain Robbie Savage and journalist and former table tennis professional Matthew Syed, Flintoff hosts a BBC Radio 5 Live podcast called Flintoff, Savage & The Ping Pong Guy in which hot sporting topics are discussed.[50] The podcast won two categories at the 2017 Radio Academy Awards – Best Podcast and Best New Show – and Flintoff himself was awarded the Best New Presenter category.[51]
Flintoff was a co-host for Australian Ninja Warrior, which first aired on the Nine Network in July 2017.[52] Currently on its fourth season, he had to leave after the quarter finals due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.[53]
In September 2017, Flintoff was the main presenter for as poolside reporters.
He appeared in the BBC drama Love, Lies & Records. In November 2017, Flintoff made his musical theatre debut as Kevin Mergatroyd in
In October 2018, it was announced that Flintoff would be the new host of
On 10 September 2019 Flintoff crashed while riding a head-first trike at 124 mph during one of the car show's signature competitions. He was not injured and resumed filming afterwards.[60]
Flintoff was involved in a second accident when filming on 13 December 2022, at the Dunsfold Park Aerodome. He was airlifted to hospital after the second accident.[61] In October 2023, press reports confirmed that BBC Studios had reached a £9 million financial settlement to compensate Flintoff for the injuries he sustained.[62]
Real estate
In 2018,[63] it was reported that he was involved in a development to build a new tower block in Castlefield, along Mancunian Way. The two buildings were dubbed the "Flintoff towers".[64] After the original was rejected for being too tall,[65] in June 2019 Flintoff continued seeking permission for a 23-storey residential tower in Castlefield.[66] A shorter version was approved in July 2019, with the tower designed by SimpsonHaugh.[67] The new development will be 23 storeys, not 35.[68]
Personal life
Flintoff married Rachael Wools in March 2005 at
Flintoff's father, Colin, and his brother, Chris, both played cricket, with Colin still playing for
On 20 January 2006, Flintoff was awarded the Honorary Freedom of Preston, his home town, now city which is the highest award a Council can bestow on an individual.[71]
In 2011, Flintoff was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Preston-based Myerscough College.[72]
Autobiographies
Flintoff has written several books:
- Being Freddie
- Freddie
- Andrew Flintoff, My Life in Pictures
- Ashes to Ashes
- Good Times, Bad Times
- Right, Said Fred
Documentaries
His career has been subject of a number of TV films and documentaries. In Freddie Flintoff: Hidden Side of Sport broadcast on the BBC One in 2012,[73] he talks candidly in moving interviews with Steve Harmison, Vinnie Jones and Ricky Hatton and others about the serious effects of depression. He confronts his own issues as captain of England under pressure and under fire at the top of his game. Freddie reveals the stigma attached to talking about depression in the face of an often unforgiving public.
In the documentary Flintoff: From Lord's to the Ring in 2012 broadcast on
In 2020, Flintoff presented a documentary that aired on the
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2005 | The Frank Skinner Show | Guest | 1 episode |
Strictly Come Dancing | 4 episodes | ||
2006 | Match of the Day | 1 episode | |
2007 | ITV News | ||
You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous | Participant | ||
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Guest | ||
2009, 2012, 2017-2019 | The One Show | 7 episodes | |
2009 | The F Word | 1 episode | |
2010 | Live from Studio Five | ||
2010–present | A League of Their Own | Participant | 113 episodes |
2010 | 2010 Sport Relief | Himself | One-off |
James Corden's World Cup Live | Guest | 1 episode | |
2011 | Daybreak | ||
The Million Pound Drop | Participant | ||
John Bishop's Britain | Himself | 5 episodes | |
My Funniest Year | 1 episode | ||
Alone in the Wild: Freddie Flintoff | Television movie | ||
2012 | Celebrity Juice | Guest | 3 episodes |
2012, 2015 | The Jonathan Ross Show | 2 episodes | |
2012, 2017-2018 | Loose Women | 6 episodes | |
2012 | Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild | Himself | 4 episodes |
Let's Get Gold | 1 episode | ||
The Last Leg | Guest | ||
Flintoff: From Lord's to the Ring | Himself | 4 episodes | |
2013 | John Bishop's Only Joking | Guest | 3 episodes |
The Graham Norton Show | 1 episode | ||
That Puppet Game Show | Participant | ||
2013-2014 | 8 Out of 10 Cats | Guest | 2 episodes |
2013 | The Spa | Himself | 1 episode |
2014 | Piers Morgan's Life Stories
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Guest | |
Celebrity Squares | Participant | ||
Duck Quacks Don't Echo | |||
Sunday Brunch | Guest | ||
Oxford Street Revealed | Himself | ||
Trollied | |||
2014-2015 | 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown | Participant | 2 episodes |
2015 | I'm A Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here! | 20 episodes | |
The New Paul O'Grady Show
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Guest | 1 episode | |
Very British Problems | Himself | 3 episodes | |
Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week | Presenter | ||
2015–present | Flintoff: Lord of the Fries | Himself | 14 episodes (plus 4 in production) |
2016 | Too Much TV | Presenter | 1 episode |
All Star Mr & Mrs | Participant | ||
John Bishop: in Conversation With | Guest | ||
Tipping Point: Lucky Stars | Participant | ||
2017 | Freddie Down Under | Himself | 6 episodes |
Parenting for Idiots | Participant | 3 episodes | |
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Guest | 1 episode | |
The Nightly Show | |||
2017-2018 | Good Morning Britain | 2 episodes | |
2017 | Andrew Flintoff's Summer: Pacino and Bert | Man | Television movie |
2017–2020 | Australian Ninja Warrior | Presenter | 21 episodes |
2017 | Cannonball | 10 episodes | |
Gogglebox | Participant | 1 episode | |
Love, Lies and Records | Danny | ||
2018 | Breakfast | Guest | |
All Round to Mrs. Brown's | |||
Carnage | Presenter | ||
2019 | Cricket World Cup Opening Ceremony | One-off | |
Lorraine | Guest | 1 episode | |
2019–2023 | Top Gear | Presenter | 4 series (21 episodes) |
2020–present | Total Wipeout - Freddie and Paddy's Takeover | ||
2020 | Don't Rock The Boat | ||
2020 | Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia | ||
2021 | DNA Journey | Himself | 1 episode; 10 March 2021[77] |
2022 | The Games | 1 series (5 episodes) | |
2022–present | Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams | Documentary series; second series commissioned[78][79] | |
2022 | Freddie & Jason: Two Men in a Tent | With Jason Manford[80] |
Awards and honours
- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year): 2005
- Honorary Freedom of Preston: 2006
- Honorary Fellowship of Myerscough College: 2011
- England captain: 2006, 2006–2007
- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World: 2005
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year: 2004
- PCA Player of the Year: 2004, 2005
- ICC Player of the Year: 2005
- ICC ODI Player of the Year: 2004
- ICC World One-Day XI: 2004, 2005, 2006
- ICC World Test XI: 2005, 2006
- Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year: 1998
- Compton-Miller medal: 2005
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year: 2005
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year Third Place: 2004
- NBC Denis Compton Award: 1997
- Walter Lawrence Trophy: 1999
- MCC Spirit of Cricket Award: 2005
Professional boxing record
1 fight | 1 win | 0 losses |
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By decision | 1 | 0 |
No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
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1 | Win | 1–0 | Richard Dawson | PTS | 4 | 30 November 2012 | Manchester Arena, Manchester, England |
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External links
- Official website Archived 10 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- Andrew Flintoff photos & statistics at sporting-heroes.net
- Andrew Flintoff at ESPNcricinfo
- Sporting Mavericks Hall of Fame Entry
- Boxing record for Andrew Flintoff from BoxRec (registration required)