Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua karanga a Andrew Flintoff ki te iwi kirikiti Ingarihi kia whakaatu i to ratau aroha ki te NatWest Twenty20 Blast - me te rangatira o te whakamatautau i raro i te pehanga Alastair Cook. Ko te rahui o te Puta kei te teitei hou, i tana tau tuarua me te 12th mo te whakatakotoranga a-whare Twenty20, me te Ingarangi me Wales Cricket Board e kii ana i te pai ake o nga hoko tiikiti o mua me te kopare o nga superstars o tawahi penei i a Brendon McCullum kua whakaritea ki te whai waahi. Ko Cook, heoi, kei te iti ake te heke mai i te mea ko tana rapu mo te rau tau o te Whakamatau - hei taapiri ki tana rekoata 25 - i kawea mai e ia etahi atu ngoikoretanga e rua i runga ake o te raupapa i te tukinga o te raupapa o Ingarangi i West Indies. Ka whakapuaki a Andrew Flintoff i tētahi kōrero ki a Chris Woakes o Warwickshire me Ingarangi i te whakarewatanga o te T20 Blast. Kei raro i te pēhanga te rangatira o Ingarangi a Alastair Cook e haere ana ki te patu i te whakamātautau tuatahi i Antigua i tenei wiki. Heoi he kaitautoko ia i roto i te hoa o mua o Ingarangi me te hoa 2009 Ashes-winner Flintoff. 'Kei te ngenge ahau i te iwi e whai ana i a Alastair Cook,' te kaikawe katoa i korero ki a Sky Sports News, i a ia e awhina ana ki te whakarewa i te whakataetae Blast o tenei tau - hoki ki Edgbaston i tae mai ai ia ki tetahi atu patu nui o te wikitoria i te whakamutunga o te tau ki Lancashire. 'Ko ahau te rangatira i te wā i tae mai ai a Alastair ki te taha. He maha nga mea i hē i ahau hei rangatira o Ingarangi, engari ko te mea kotahi i tika i ahau ko te whiriwhiri i a Alastair Cook. Ko ia tētahi o ngā kaitākaro pai rawa atu o Ingarangi. Mēnā kei a koe tētahi mahi e neke atu ana i te 100 ngā tukinga Whakamātautau, ka puta mai he tohu i te ara. Engari ko Alastair... ka puta i tenei. E hiahia ana ahau ki te kite i te iwi i waho o te kapa Ingarangi e tautoko ana i te tamaiti. 'He mea pai ētahi wā ina whiwhi koe i te iti aroha i te iwi, a whakaaro ahau e te mea anake e ngaro ki Alastair i te meneti.' Kua tukuna e Flintoff tana taumaha ki muri i tana hoa kapa o mua a Cook me te raupapa o West Indies e haere tonu ana. Ko Woakes rāua ko James Vince o Hampshire (roto matau) e titiro ana ki Edgbaston. E hiahia ana a Flintoff ki te hora i te aroha hoki mō tētahi whakataetae e tūmanako ana ia ka riro hei kaupapa i roto i te rangatiratanga o Ingarangi...
I whakarewahia te NatWest Twenty20 Blast i Edgbaston i te Taite. I tae atu a Andrew Flintoff me tētahi kaitākaro mai i ia rohe. I tautokohia e te rangatira o Ingarangi o mua te rangatira o te Whakamātautau a Alastair Cook i raro i te ahi.