England Cricket Team: Last News

Tony Blair's office and told to "f*** off" when he was "Freddied". However, in an unearthed interview, the cricket ace confirmed his party days are in the past thanks to his family.The sportsman puts part of his transformation down to wife Rachael, who is "always there" to take care of him.The cricketer turned sports presenter explained: "I'm not that wild lad anymore.""[My wife] would give me a b**ching and I would listen...now I'm a dad and a husband," he said to OK! magazine.Rachael previously worked as a model and events management entrepreneur, and originally met Freddie while at a Birmingham cricket ground promoting one of her events.Soon after the couple got married, she scaled down her career and devoted her life to her family, including the four children she shares with Freddie.Family life proved to be a positive influence on Freddie, as he revealed on the First Time Dads podcast.A year after his first child was born, daughter Hollie, he was part of a record-breaking defeat of Australia in the 2005 Ashes match."My career at the time, I started doing really well," he enthused."Everyone said that couldn't happen, but it put everything into perspective.

Piers Morgan, 56, has recalled how wrong his face-off against Australian bowler Brett Lee went.The presenter admitted he was left with broken ribs after the encounter, which aired on Australian television.Back in 2013, Piers faced off against the legendary bowler in the nets.After calling out cricketers over the ashes, he agreed to face off against Brett for six blistering shots.Opening up about this moment in a recent podcast, Piers admitted he was worried he was about to die.Speaking on a podcast with Brett he recalled how he felt lining up to take the shots.He said: “Now I’m thinking literally I could die, these will be the last few minutes of my illustrious life.”Piers admitted his three sons were watching Brett fire the balls at him, as he recalled the injuries he suffered.Speaking on January 18, he said: “The first one smashed into my wrist, I thought you’d broken my wrist“I thought, ‘You can’t show any pain, show no pain.’“The second one I dived for cover and ended up on my backside.”“The third one breaks my rib and you had a grin on your face but I was in absolute agony, I thought I’d broken my rib.”However, Piers admitted he was pleased with himself as he kept getting back up like Rocky Balboa.“I was just in so much pain,” the presenter added.In response, Brett joked that he had been worried he was going to get done for murder.Speaking at the time in 2014, Brett admitted Piers had warned him to not go easy on him.He told the Sydney Morning Herald: ''When I was going into the nets to bowl at him he said, 'Make sure you go flat out,' because he thought if I went half-hearted it wouldn't look good.

Former cricket captain David Gower OBE has spoken about how you can “get picked up for virtually anything” on social media. One example the cricket commentator gave was being called out over the distinction between “batter” and “batsman”. David returned from Australia last week after England’s lack-lustre performance in the Ashes, crumbling to 124 in just 38.5 overs.Considered one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of his era, the 64-year-old pundit has shown that he’s not afraid to call out the team when necessary. “It’s been horribly obvious to people watching from a distance that Eoin Morgan has everything he wants with the white-ball team…but poor old Joe Root finds himself with people who aren’t available because, where are they?” David asked.“They are in the IPL.

Ben Stokes, 30, is yet to release a statement himself, however many fans and celebrities have flocked to Twitter to send him their well wishes.Gary Lineker has penned an emotional tweet to the cricket star this evening.In view of his 8.1 million followers, he wrote: “Wishing @benstokes38 a speedy recovery.“When our sporting heroes are brave and open up about their mental health problems it will help others realise that they are not alone with theirs.“As we’ve seen over the last few days no one is invincible.