{"id":290692,"date":"2023-09-15T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=290692"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:35:33","slug":"freddie-flintoff-grins-as-he-warms-up-with-england-ahead-of-final-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/%d1%81ricket\/freddie-flintoff-grins-as-he-warms-up-with-england-ahead-of-final-odi\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Flintoff grins as he warms up with England ahead of final ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Freddie Flintoff grins as facial injuries from his Top Gear crash continue to heal while working as England team&#8217;s unpaid mentor at Lord&#8217;s<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andrew Flintoff was pictured smiling as he participates in England training\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He was helping England warm up ahead of their final ODI vs New Zealand\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flintoff has returned to cricket after his horror smash on the BBC series\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Andrew Flintoff has been pictured smiling as he assisted England&#8217;s cricketers warm up ahead of their final One Day International match against New Zealand on Friday at Lord&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England are currently 2-1 up in the four-match series after claiming a dominant 181-run victory against the Kiwis on Wednesday, with Ben Stokes starring with the bat to hit a record breaking 182\u00a0runs, the greatest score by an England player in 782 one-day internationals stretching back 52 years.<\/p>\n<p>Flintoff, meanwhile, has recently come back into the fold with England in an unpaid mentorship capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It came after the 45-year-old was involved in a serious accident last December while filming with Top Gear, with the ex-England star recently showing off his injuries which seem to slowly be healing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469505-12522533-image-a-32_1694776338764.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469509-12522533-image-a-33_1694776353070.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469515-0-image-a-1_1694776044429.jpg\" height=\"444\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469517-0-image-a-2_1694776048079.jpg\" height=\"473\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469513-0-image-a-3_1694776053165.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469511-0-image-a-4_1694776057052.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469509-0-image-a-5_1694776061685.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/12\/75469507-0-image-a-6_1694776065736.jpg\" height=\"790\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12522533\/Freddie-Flintoff-grins-facial-injuries-Gear-crash-continue-heal-working-England-teams-unpaid-mentor-Lords.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Flintoff grins as facial injuries from his Top Gear crash continue to heal while working as England team&#8217;s unpaid mentor at Lord&#8217;s Andrew Flintoff was pictured smiling as he participates in England training\u00a0\u00a0 He was helping England warm up ahead of their final ODI vs New Zealand\u00a0 Flintoff has returned to cricket after his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290691,"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 - 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