WE’RE NO LONGER CAUGHT IN A TRAP

PETER HAYTER

@phaytercricket

All together now: Team spirit embodied the winning culture in Andrew Strauss’ Test side in the early 2000s
PICTURE: Getty Images

Oh, how we laughed when Freddie Flintoff turned Trafalgar Square into his own private Karaoke bar that extraordinary day in September 2005.
When, asked what he had eaten since the greatest Ashes series had ended at the Oval the evening before in England’s longed-for victory, their talismanic all-rounder said a cigar, then informed the crowd and seemingly the rest of the entire nation watching on TV that “behind ...

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