The Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, is now targetting Andrew Flintoff after first targetting a dressing room door.
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Ricky Ponting stated that Flintoff, England's all rounder who will retire from Test cricket after the Ashes series, looked to be going "downhill" pretty quickly in the course of the third Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham (see images below).
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With not much in the pitch to help bowlers and the draw becoming the more likely outcome, the England captain, Andrew Strauss, reduced the burden considerably on a worn out looking Flintoff.
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With the grind of back to back series, the second of which in the Ashes will see the fourth Test at Headingley on Friday, is perhaps beginning to tell on the injured all rounder who has had to do various manipulations including sleeping with a machine attached to his knee to help him stay fit and see how the final Test series of his cricket career.
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Ponting was hoping to rub in the negatives for England from the third Test, stating that with Flintoff out on a limb and Kevin Pietersen on crutches, England were beginning to wear thin.
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