Birmingham, August 04: England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was struggling in the Edgbaston Test and his fitness is “going downhill pretty quickly”, feels Australian skipper Ricky Ponting.
Struggling with a lingering knee injury, Flintoff, who would be retiring from Test cricket after the Ashes series, was not as lethal with the ball in the drawn Test in Edgbaston as he was in the previous match at the Lord’s.
Although the 31-year-old Lancashire top scored with the bat, hitting 74, he couldn’t take a single wicket in his 11 overs yesterday.
“He bowled so well at Lord’s, and what we have seen Flintoff give them with the bat as well was pretty impressive, so having Pietersen and him out of the same side would leave two pretty big gaps in their make-up,” Ponting told a post-match news conference.
–PTI