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PAUL NEWMAN IN DHARAMSHALA: Thousands of England supporters who participated in this 'bucket-list' Test were ideally encouraged to enjoy the stunning views of the snow-capped Himalayan mountains. For the alternative, it was safer to watch a complete horror film. This was the most frustrating day of a tour so far, but England had promised a lot but not delivered maddeningly little. Worse than when they lost to a historic loss in Rajkot and even worse than when they threw it all away in Ranchi.

Top Gear has been cut off after the BBC announced that there was no way back for the show following Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's terrifying accident. After his open-topped three-wheel Morgan Super 3 car, which had no air bags, flipped over on December 13 last year, leaving him with serious facial bruises and several broken ribs, the former England cricket captain was 'lucky to be alive.' Production workers have been told to look elsewhere for other jobs, putting an end to the much-loved automobile show.

When he oversaw a warm-up session against England against New Zealand, Freddie Flintoff was all smiles. Flintoff appeared in public for the first time last week after a near-fatal car crash while filming the BBC's Top Gear show in December 2022. During Jos Buttler's one-day match against New Zealand, the 45-year-old consultant was pictured on the field at The Oval as England players went through their warm-up routine on Wednesday.

Following a near-fatal car crash while filming the BBC's Top Gear show in December 2022, Flintoff is being used by Jos Buttler's side as a consultant during their one-day series against New Zealand. The former England captain, who played in the last of his 79 Tests in 2009, was all smiles in preparation for his third ODI at The Oval, laughing and joking with Jonny Bairstow and wearing a baseball glove to play as a makeshift wicketkeeper for Jofra Archer.

Following the horrific crash he suffered while filming Top Gear, Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff has returned to the public eye. Flintoff made a quiet return to the game in the summer of 2023, retaining a low profile as a spectator at several Ashes Tests and being photographed with England's one-day side during their ODI series against New Zealand.

It was surprising to learn that they did not reveal much else besides Chris Woakes and Mark Wood's match-clinching partnership in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Both men were pushed to the ground each day and then parked in the same spot. And when they go on tour, they bring each other's favorite foods: chocolate digestives for Woakes, Ferrero Rocher for Wood. Woakes even held Wood's hand during internal flights on a small aircraft to ease his fear of flying.

Dale Thomas (left) of Cult has revealed that he partied with Ben Stokes (right, inset), just four days before the Ashes, with the English skipper 'dancing around with bottles of vodka.' Paul Collingwood and Graeme Smith partied the night away before Stokes led England into the field in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston, with Stokes leading England into the field, according to the Magpies premiership champions saying Stokes was in fine form on the dance floor.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: The Ashes begins on Friday, with England and Australia likely to meet again in one of cricket's most popular rivalries. Both Ben Stokes and Pat Cummins will lead their teams into battle with the intent of not only winning, but also making their respective countries proud and putting on a show for all to enjoy. Lawrence Booth of Mail Sport takes a trip down memory lane in selecting his 10 best Ashes Tests ever.

When asked whether 'Bazball' is going to revolutionize the County Championship, Lancashire's new captain Keaton Jennings makes a metaphorical and perhaps literal case for the defense. Although Ben Stokes has made it abundantly clear that he wants counties to follow his swashbuckling example and promote the ultra-attacking cricket that has changed England's Test side since he took over as captain at the start of last summer.

LOS ANGELES: BOOTH OF ALL TIME: As Jimmy Anderson had the faintest of edges on a Neil Wagner short ball and Tom Blundell took the lead, England hearts broke as New Zealand claimed a one-run victory in one of the finest Test matches of all time. The game ebb and flowed both directions over the five days, before the Kiwis became just the fourth team in history to win after being asked to follow on. Lawrence Booth of Sportsmail picks out the five best Test matches he has ever seen in honor of the classic.

PAUL NEWMAN IN WELLINGTON: There have not been many times in a year of Test cricket played in fast-forward when England has been compelled to sit down and display the one ingredient they are reluctant to include in their potent 'Bazball' mix, patience. After Tom Latham and Devon Conway threatened to make Ben Stokes pay for what has become a rare but utterly offensive tactic in enforcing the follow on, they certainly needed it on the third day of this final Test. When New Zealand regained 149 without loss in their second innings after being barred for 209 in reply to 435 for eight, there were English supporters who were keen to know why Stokes had not just batted them out of the game.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: With a 74-run victory over Rawalpindi on Monday, Ben Stokes and England kept to their plans to get a result against Pakistan, thanks to spectacular performances from Zak Crawley, Ollie Robinson, Harry Brook, and Stokes himself. Crawley's 172 runs over two innings to keep faith in him this summer, while England's Brooke Smith starred for England with 240 from 181 balls in the Test, including eight sixes. Despite not having the best Test of his life, Robinson excelled in weather that shouldn't have suited him and Stokes was his normal inspiring self in every facet of the game.

LOS TIMES BOOTH IN RAWALPINDI: When baffled local journalists challenged Stokes' omission, which resulted in Pakistan's 343 in four sessions on a Rawalpindi pitch that has refused to break up, Collingwood said England had the wider picture to consider at a time when the Test format is fighting for its life. 'It's magnificent in terms of the bigger picture,' he said. "The number one goal, as Baz and Ben took over, was to make Test cricket entertaining,' as T20 has been.'

PAUL NEWMAN IN MELBOURNE: After England's Test captain's latest match-winning effort to his collection by heading the Twenty20 side of the World Cup here, Jos Buttler praised Ben Stokes. Stokes' first half-century in T20 international cricket gave England a thrilling five-wicket victory over Pakistan with an over to spare at the MCG and unify the 50-over and T20 world titles. And captain Buttler said that despite Stokes' long absence from England's T20 squad ahead of the World Cup and lacked fluency with the bat in the early stages of the tournament, the man he insisted should play a pivotal role here.

PAUL NEWMAN OF BRISBANE: All practices are optional these days, with England's players notified of how much batting, bowling, and fielding they need to prepare for a diet of near-stop cricket. However, eyebrows were always going to be raised when the only player who did not turn up yesterday but could predict the England white-ball team's immediate future was Stokes' talismanic figure. The problem, it appears, is the handling of the acute injury to Stokes' left knee, which has no signs of ending and has almost as much cortisone as it can safely take.

Captain Jos Buttler returns to England for his first game since his turbulent first summer as a result of Eoin Morgan's sudden departure, while Ben Stokes looks likely to join him for his first T20 game for England in 18 months. But, worryingly for England, Liam Livingstone is out with an ankle injury, and it could be a question for the World Cup opener against Afghanistan in two weeks.

RICHARD GIBSON (KARACHI), Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad could complete their Test careers in player-coaching roles as a result of England's drive to shrink the backroom force. A locum bowling coach from the county game is being trained in Abu Dhabi in November to help with England's next series here in Pakistan. However, Sportsmail understands that Brendon McCullum's long-term goal is to draw on the team's veteran seamers' experience rather than permanently replacing outgoing Jon Lewis. McCullum is known to want a streamlining of the support staff in the Test environment, and if Lewis returns to work within the ECB's pathway system, it will result in a pair of 997 Test wickets when playing together grooming their successors.

STUART BROAD: The mentality with which this England Test team is planning to approach the game ensures that there will be many thrills and a few spills along the way. The spills against South Africa this week were evident. We've got off to a good start in our summer by winning all four Tests against New Zealand and India, but we must remember that we were in situations where we might have lost each of them.

On day three at Lord's, England conceded to a humiliating innings loss to South Africa, as the tourists drew first blood in the three-Test series. England collapsed to 149 all out after dismissing Dean Elgar's side for 326 before lunch in what became Ben Stokes' first defeat as captain. Sportsmail has analyzed the results from both teams as England was brought down to earth after demonstrating with their new 'Bazball' philosophy earlier this summer.

LORD'S COMMENT: The possibility of a big Test innings for Zak Crawley has risen to the point of apprehension over hope, and the excitement has almost left town. It was the 24th time in 47 Test innings that he had failed to reach the sunlit uplands of double figures when he was squared up by Kagiso Rabada in the first hour of this LV=insurance series against South Africa and trapped by Aiden Markam at second slip for nine. He hasn't made it to 20 on seven occasions. He has only passed away seven times. Mike Brearley has averaged fewer than 26 out of 36 regular members of the top six in the history of English Test batting.

Although the tourists' bowling had more to do with the excellence of the tourists' bowling than the home batting's flamboyance, England's assistant coach said the Test team would keep their new strategy of aggression. 'Everyone's clear on how we're going to go about our batting,' he said. That is not going to change.' We're not really going to get it 100% correct. We don't want the bowler to feel he can stick it in the same area and get results,' says he on wickets with a lot of help.' You're bound to be tested. This is the exciting part - we want to find ways to push the boundaries, be expressive, and entertaining.

The back-up bowlers in England Lions' dramatic victory over South Africa on Friday brought contrasting fortunes to the back-up bowlers in the first Test squad. Though Craig Overton was forced from the field at Canterbury on the fourth morning due to back stiffness, Ollie Robinson mocked fitness issues that had kept him off international field for eight months by winning the innings-and-56 run when he started it. The Lions' acting head coach, Paul Collingwood, said of Overton's departure: 'We'll see what the weekend's going to be like.' It was a precaution to get it off.'