{"id":289264,"date":"2023-09-09T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=289264"},"modified":"2023-09-09T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:34:21","slug":"livingstone-hails-national-hero-flintoff-after-cricket-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/%d1%81ricket\/livingstone-hails-national-hero-flintoff-after-cricket-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingstone hails &apos;national hero&apos; Flintoff after cricket return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Liam Livingstone hails &#8216;national hero&#8217; Andrew Flintoff as former England talisman returns to the dressing room as a mentor after 130mph Top Gear crash nine months ago to offer his advice in ongoing New Zealand series<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andrew &#8216;Freddie&#8217; Flintoff is back in the England dressing room after an injury<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He has returned to the public domain for the first time since his Top Gear crash<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Liam Livingstone has hailed the cricket legend as a &#8216;national hero&#8217; as he returned\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Andrew \u2018Freddie\u2019 Flintoff returned to the England dressing room this week for the first time since the serious accident he was involved in while filming Top Gear.<\/p>\n<p>The former cricketer retired back in 2014 and now finds himself back in the dressing room for England.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has returned as part of a mentoring role to the current England team as an ECB source told Mail Sport they will be taking things slowly\u00a0but it does appear Flintoff is back for good.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the former all-rounder&#8217;s return, England star Liam Livingstone has discussed the importance of having the &#8216;national hero&#8217; back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s incredible to have someone of his experience with us,\u2019 said England\u2019s Livingstone after New Zealand somewhat spoiled the reunion party with an eight-wicket win in the first ODI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/18\/75249851-0-image-a-1_1694282358149.jpg\" height=\"449\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Andrew \u2018Freddie\u2019 Flintoff returned to the England dressing room this week for the first time since the serious accident he was involved in while filming Top Gear<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/18\/75249853-0-image-a-2_1694282369043.jpg\" height=\"439\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The cricket legend was pictured taking part in a session with the England team in a mentoring role<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/19\/75249855-0-image-m-4_1694282419872.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Liam Livingstone has discussed the importance of having the &#8216;national hero&#8217; back<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He was obviously one of my heroes growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thankfully I\u2019ve been around Fred a little bit at Lancashire and he\u2019s back at Old Trafford a bit more again now with his boys coming through at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s been great for the lads to have him here now. We\u2019ve all been talking to him, especially when we were batting. You\u2019ve got three and a half hours to pick the brains of someone who\u2019s been there and done it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He\u2019s a national hero so everybody loves that Fred\u2019s going to be with us for the whole of this series and I\u2019m sure he will enjoy himself as well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The cricketer continued to discuss how he and his teammates will learn off the legend as he returns in a mentoring role within the ECB.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The main thing is that we get to learn off him and I\u2019m sure it will be great for him too. Everybody loves it when they come into this England team environment and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be no different. Over the next week there will be plenty of laughs inside there.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And the whole cricket community and the wider public will be delighted that Flintoff will be laughing again after what he has been through.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12499637\/Liam-Livingstone-Andrew-Freddie-Flintoff-England-cricket.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Livingstone hails &#8216;national hero&#8217; Andrew Flintoff as former England talisman returns to the dressing room as a mentor after 130mph Top Gear crash nine months ago to offer his advice in ongoing New Zealand series Andrew &#8216;Freddie&#8217; Flintoff is back in the England dressing room after an injury He has returned to the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Livingstone hails &amp;apos;national hero&amp;apos; 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