Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff to apply for England coach position in 2019

Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has declared a certain wish to coach the national team in case he is provided the opportunity. He stated that he would be applying for the exclusive position in 2019, when the current England coach Trevor Bayliss ends his reign after the completion of Ashes series in 2019. The former cricketer wishes to take up the big responsibility and job of guiding the team in the best possible manner.

Flintoff has represented England in 79 Tests and 141 ODIs in which he has scored 3845 and 3394 runs respectively which also included eight hundreds across formats to his name. He played as a proper all-rounder for the English team as he picked up 226 wickets in the longest format and 169 wickets in the shorter format. The right hander is regarded as the one of the most finest all-rounders to have played the game.

Andrew Flintoff wishes to coach England one day

He stated that he always wanted to become the coach of the England team anytime if given a chance to lead the team. It is a fact that someone like Andrew Flintoff had applied for the same job in 2014, but wasn’t appointed the coach then as he thought the other candidates who were in the race were better than him. He revealed that when Peter Moores was appointed the England coach in 2014, Flintoff decided to withdraw his name after a lengthy conversation with the officials.

“I’m talking with my heart, yes (I’ll apply), I want to do it one day … if they want me to do it, I’ll do it. We spoke about it and I was serious, but I had to think if I’d be better than the person they’re choosing. I knew I wouldn’t be better than Peter Moores, so after a half an hour conversation I withdrew, but also said if Moores doesn’t get it, put me back in the hat,” said Flintoff on applying for the coaching role in 2014 and in future as quoted by cricket.com.

I got no reply to my email

The former cricketer stated that he had written an email to the English Cricket Board (ECB) three weeks ago stating that he longs to take up this big role. He mentioned that he never received any replied for his post and also got to know that the ECB failed to recognize him through the email address.

“I thought you can bang on about it and put players down, or actually do something about it, so I thought that I would have a crack at this, I wrote an email, three weeks past and no reply. (I found out) the ECB thought it wasn’t me despite me having one email all my life,” added the former English all-rounder.