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Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff’s return to cricket continued as he selected his Northern Superchargers squad at a Hundred draft that saw both David Warner and Jason Roy overlooked.
England legend Flintoff has been appointed head coach of Superchargers for the fourth season of the Hundred. They finished last in 2023, which meant they had the opening draft pick, which Flintoff used on the West Indies’ big hitter Nicholas Pooran, who joins Ben Stokes, Harry Brook and Adil Rashid in their squad.
Flintoff has been working his way back into public life through cricket since last summer, following a motoring crash while filming Top Gear in December 2022, which left him with serious injuries. He helped the England white-ball team last summer, and has now been entrusted with his first head coach role. He has also been in India this week filming the second season of his cricket documentary series Field Of Dreams.
A selection of big names were overlooked in the draft. Among overseas players, the pugnacious Australia opener Warner and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson went unsold, as did England World Cup winners Roy and Mark Wood.
Roy, whose international career appears to be over after he was left out of last year’s World Cup squad, was released by Oval Invincibles following two poor seasons for the team. He had a high reserve price in the draft of £100,000 and would have been unavailable for the first few days of the tournament anyway, because he will be in the USA playing Major League Cricket. Invincibles opted to replace him with Dawid Malan, another England international.
