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Known as ‘Freddie’, Flintoff moved into TV presenting on the finish of his cricket profession and fronted Top Gear from 2019 till the crash three years later.
In the primary sequence of Field of Dreams, aired in 2022, Flintoff returned to his hometown of Preston to assemble a cricket workforce of youngsters that had by no means performed the sport earlier than.
The second sequence centres on taking the workforce on a tour of India and commenced filming earlier than Flintoff’s accident.
The crash occurred 12 weeks earlier than the tour was scheduled to happen. In the documentary, Flintoff is proven per week and a half after the accident in footage he shot himself on his telephone. It reveals the preliminary extent of his facial accidents.
“I genuinely should not be here with what happened,” he mentioned. “It’s going to be a long road back and I’ve only just started. I’m going to need help. I really am. I’m not the best at asking for it.
“I’m wanting ahead to seeing the lads. I actually am. This India journey goes to be for me as a lot as them now. I’m decided. I actually wish to go.”
In the end, the tour would have to be delayed until 2024.
Seven months after the accident, in the summer of 2023, Flintoff was visited by close friend and fellow coach Kyle Hogg.
The exchange between the two, captured in the documentary, is Flintoff’s first explanation of the impact the accident had on him.
By that stage, Flintoff had undergone a number of operations on his face and rarely left his home. When he did it was with a “full face masks and glasses”.
