SK Cricket Olympics: Cricketers enter the ring for a bout
The Olympics are in full swing and have stolen cricket’s thunder, despite a packed international schedule and multiple matches being played across the world. The last time cricket’s popularity in the subcontinent was overhauled by Olympics was in 1980, when the Indian hockey team last won a gold, and the year Shahid Afridi was born and started bowling leg-spin.
In the first edition of our Cricket Olympics series, we discussed the prospects for a 4X100 relay team: SK Cricket Olympics: Virat Kohli, Andre Russell and Glenn Maxwell participate in 4x100 Metres Relay
This time around, we take a look at some cricketing stars who could make a good fist of their new roles in the boxing ring.
Andrew Flintoff (England)
Flintoff’s Professional boxing record: Matches – 1, Wins – 1, Success Rate: 100%.
In front of 5000 spectators at Manchester Arena, he defeated Richard Dawson 39-38 to become a lifelong member of the English Club of Boxers (ECB), and has was recently hired by them to teach Joe Root basic boxing defence techniques against Australians.
Flintoff’s weakness lies in his weight, and his weak knees, making him a sitting duck against shorter opponents, also making him the global ambassador of an arthritis oil company called Turmoil, a word also used to describe his state of mind when Yuvraj Singh blasted Stuart Broad for six sixes.