FREDDIE'S FUN DAY IS OVER AND OUT

ANDREW FLINTOFF, it seems, has decided not to sign a central contract with the ECB because it would prevent him from going bungee-jumping.

Which is strange because surely that will be next on the list of warm-up routines for the England team.

The ECB sternly decrees their players cannot take part in dangerous sports.

But kicking lumps out of each other pre-match and setting a machine to fire 90mph missiles at batsmen's toes is just fine.

Anyway, I digress. It is Flintoff's prerogative to decline a contract with England. But it is not his prerogative to decide the England games he plays in.

You don't pick yourself for your country, your country picks you.

Flintoff has retired from Test cricket and is not committing himself to a cricket board which has been incredibly supportive during his long spells of rehabilitation and during his refuelling issues.

The Freddie show was fun but it's over. It's time to move on. Cricket chiefs should leave him to his life as a Twenty20 mercenary.

And never put him in an England shirt again.

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