Andrew Flintoff slams Michael Atherton - Cricket News Update
34-year old, former English all-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-John-Goodchild-c52940 Standard at the Sky TV party at The Oxo Tower on Tuesday night.
Lancashire pace-man was out spoken about his views on the former captain who called the current ODI leader Alastair Cook, a “plodder” with the bat and a “donkey” in the field.
"He’s a f*****g p***k. He sits there making judgments about players that are much better than he ever was, believe me, he’s a p***k,” Flintoff was quoted as saying. “How can he talk about a player like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 who is 10 times the player he ever was? Cook has a much bigger average and will go on and on. Atherton averaged in the 30s for England and yet he thinks he can judge others."
The current ODI leader for England is a run-machine who scored a match winning ton against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in the second ODI of the ongoing series. Cook was nominated as ODI captain last year and was under scrutiny for having a low strike rate for ODIs.
Right-handed Atherton had an career average of 37.69 and 35.11 in Test and One Dayer respectively, while on the other hand the left-hander averages 48.54 in Test cricket and 42.06 in ODIs, proving his batting strength and consistency.
Atherton earlier criticized Flintoff after he took over as skipper in 2006, claiming that he was ‘too nice’ to be a captain.
During the 2009 Ashes Test at Lord’s, Mike likened the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lancashire-c806 pace-man to a second hand car which has no reliability, indirectly targeting Andrew’s fitness. Furthermore Mike refused to acknowledge Flintoff's achievements, even though he was widely regarded as the best all-rounder in his team.
"Like a second-hand car with plenty of miles on the clock, Flintoff's body has become unreliable,” Atherton said back then.
A graduate of Downing College, a medical division of the Cambridge University, Atherton represented his university’s cricket team before going onto appear for the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 national team.
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