Andrew Flintoff has returned home from the IPL to undergo surgery on a torn meniscus in his right knee. It was during Team Chennai’s last match against Team Delhi when Flintoff felt the discomfort in his right knee. Flintoff was then taken to a hospital in Durban. The team’s medical staff contacted Dr Nick Peirce, [...]
The costliest players on the Indian Premier League roster, England’s Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff stand to lose as much as 150,000 pounds (USD 219,511 approx) due to the organisers’ decision to push back the event’s start by a week as their work has been cut to 14 days. Pietersen, who will captain Bangalore Royal [...]
After a nagging hip injury forced him to return home mid-way from the Test series against the West Indies, England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff hinted he may skip the lucrative Indian Premier League to stay fit to take on the Australians in the Ashes series. Flintoff, who was bagged by IPL’s Chennai Super Kings side for [...]
Australian spin legend Shane Warne has suggested that the Indian Premier League should be shortened and restricted to just the month of April so that all the international stars could feature in it. The IPL Season II kicks off on April 10 and will conclude on May 24 with the final slated in Mumbai. “The [...]
Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi on Thursday said the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) should not stop Andrew Flintoff from playing in the Twenty20 league, beginning from April 10. ECB chairman Giles Clarke on Wednesday had expressed concern over Flintoff, who has a hip injury, playing in the IPL. But Modi said [...]
The costliest player at the Indian Premier League, Andrew Flintoff may miss out on the tournament this year because of a hip injury. The ECB has hinted that Flintoff may be forced to sit out of the IPL on fitness grounds. The England all-rounder, contracted with Chennai Super Kings, has been ruled out of the [...]
Seventeen slots were filled in over two hours of the 2009 IPL auction in Goa. Here is a list of the players who have been bought at the auction (base price in brackets; all numbers in US$): Pool A Shaun Tait to Rajasthan Royals 375,000 (250,000) JP Duminy to Mumbai Indians 950,000 (300,000) Andrew Flintoff [...]
Star England players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff on Friday emerged as the world’s most expensive cricketers after being sold for a whopping $1.55 million (approx Rs 7.35 cr) in the Indian Premier League auction, surpassing Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who had fetched Rs six crore in the inaugural edition. In an auction telecast [...]
England’s dethroned captain Kevin Pietersen and Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke are to command the top two reserve prices of 1.35 and one million USD, respectively, during the second Indian Premier League players’ auction to be held in Goa on February 6. England’s charismatic all rounder Andrew Flintoff’s base price has been pegged at USD 950,000 [...]
The second auction of IPL players will be held in Goa on February 6. While most teams already have the core of the squad in place the players available this time can provide them just that extra edge. Some people described the 2008 IPL auction as the most thrilling moment in cricket after the 1983 [...]
The second player’s auction of the DLF Indian Premier League will witness 114 cricketers from abroad under the hammer in Goa on February 6. From South Africa’s new batting sensation JP Duminy to Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke and England’s Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, the auction will see an array of stars up for the [...]
England will return to India to play their two-match Test series as per schedule, but without several senior players including talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, according to a media report here. Following the terror attack on Mumbai, Flintoff and fast bowler Steve Harmison and perhaps another bowler in the squad of 15, are expected to pull [...]
England in India, 2008 India vs England, 1st ODI Madhavrao Scindia Ground, Rajkot, November 14, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Amiesh Saheba (Ind) & Russell Tiffin (Zim) Third Umpire: Suresh Shastri (Ind) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: England (Elected to field) Match Status: India won by 158 runs Batting: England Innings Batsmen England (229/10 in [...]
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has said England captain Kevin Pietersen and star all-rounder Andrew Flintoff need to play “substantial number of IPL games” to make it viable for them to play in the next season of the Indian Premier League. In an interview to The Wisden Cricketer, Modi said that the players, who missed the [...]
Andrew Flintoff’s 85-ball 100, with strong support from Owais Shah, set up a comfortable 122-run victory for England over a second-string Mumbai side in their first practice game of the tour. There were more gains for England’s batsmen than their bowlers, who, except for James Anderson, had to toil without much impact. Flintoff was a [...]