Blogs Flintoff: was this needed?
July 16th, 2009 by kapoorOne could be a bit sympathetic to what has forced Andrew Flintoff to announce his untimely retirement. However, if looked upon from a strictly professional viewpoint, this does not seem like the most logical decision. Agreed, his injuries were beginning to haunt his performances and his body wasn’t in the greatest of conditioning to play entire test series like the Ashes but then he isn’t that aged to actually quit a format of the game. There was always a place for him in the England squad and even if he was present on a sporadic basis, it really would have made a substantial difference to England’s fortunes. In terms of quitting, he could have quit T20 cricket instead since it seems that much more taxing as compared to test cricket wherein bowlers always have the luxury of running to the dressing room for a quick rubdown along with long intervals of lounging on the deep-set fielding placements. He really has done no favours to his national side or his talent.
