Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams On Tour (BBC ONE)
Andrew Flintoff wants to save the world through cricket. His heartfelt joy in playing the game seems to make him glow, radiating warmth like an image on a heat-sensitive camera.
It’s this feeling that he was desperate to share with a motley gang of lads from his hometown, Preston, in Lancashire, when he first taught them the game two years ago – and it’s this feeling that can be a lifeline for Freddie (as everyone knows him) now.
Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams On Tour is his first TV documentary since his horrendous accident while filming for BBC One’s Top Gear in December 2022.
The man we knew of old – the gregarious cheeky joker who entertained us both on the cricket pitch and in television panel games such as A League Of Their Own – has changed dramatically.
He seemed at ease only when, in the crowded Indian city of Kolkata, he joined in a game of street cricket or ‘gully’ – marvelling at the urban rules where…