Don't look now but is Andrew Flintoff really nothing but an English Abey Kuruvilla? The funniest cricket writer these days, Andy Zaltzman, ponders this in an article written with a tongue firmly in cheek, but with a finger on the real pulse of the issue:
Is Flintoff really all that he is made out to be?
The game was labelled by some as ‘Flintoff’s Match’ – rightly so, as his performance is what the game will be remembered for above all else – yet, as an all-round display, it was not quite as impressive as Abey Kuruvilla’s effort for India against Sri Lanka in Mohali in 1997-98. Kuruvilla scored 35 not out, compared to Flintoff’s 34 for once out, and took 6 for 117, as opposed to the English titan’s comparatively profligate 6 for 119. Few in the cricket world, however, talk excitedly of ‘Kuruvilla’s Match’. None, in fact. Not even members of the Kerala quite-quickman’s immediate family.
"From one Andy to another, I think you may be onto something here, Zaltzman."
Don't look now but is Andrew Flintoff really nothing but an English Abey Kuruvilla? The funniest cricket writer these days, Andy Zaltzman, ponders this in an article written with a tongue firmly in cheek, but with a finger on the real pulse of the issue: Is Flintoff really all that he is made out to be?
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