Andrew Flintoff planning on life after cricket after injury knockback

Bystaff Published: 1:00PM GMT 02 March 2010

Freddie for action? Andrew Flintoff has put behind his quip plans Photo: PA

The England all-rounder called time on his Test career after last summer"s Ashes, had an operation on his ongoing knee damage the subsequent day and has not set feet on a cricket margin since.

Instead, an primary augury that he might even redeem in time for England"s stream debate of Bangladesh has had to be revised following some-more surgery at the begin of the year.

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The 32-year-old all-rounder still believes he might have multiform seasons forward of him, in all cricket for Lancashire and limited-overs formats for his country.

But he concedes he has had to begin meditative about hold up after cricket, usually in box "the misfortune thing happens".

"If the misfortune thing did occur and I can"t fool around cricket, I don"t wish to arrive at the finish of it scratching my head," Flintoff said.

"It is a slim possibility. I"ve seen a lot of cricketers finish their careers after injury, or usually come to the finish of them, and not be rebuilt for hold up after cricket and burst in to you do something they don"t wish to do. I don"t wish to be in that position.

"I have a couple of manacles in the fire. But initial and inaugural is removing behind on a cricket field."

Flintoff"s damage done the finish of his Test career inevitable, but he will not confess improved simply in his query to lapse for bar and country.

"Cricket has been such a big piece of my hold up that when I"m not personification it is hard. I wish it back," he added. "I had no alternative choice [but to retire from Test cricket]. It was something I had to swallow.

"When the IPL starts and the (county) championship, and the lads are going to the Twenty20 World Cup, that is probably when it will strike home and hurt."

It was usually after his second operation on the same corner dual months ago that Flintoff supposed he would have to put behind his return. "It was usually a box that my knee was not removing any improved in that sure area," he said.

"It has knocked me behind 6 months.

"But I"ve been in this on all sides before, so I know what I need to do - and the inducement is to get behind personification cricket."