Originally Posted by Rachael

Boycott has a piece on this in today's Torygraph... suggesting the lack of professionalism set in after the 2005 Ashes and arguing that Flintoff's downturn as a batsman is a direct consequence: he notes that laddishness and bowling well are not incompatible as bowling is essentially physical... but that the cumulative effect of binge drinking and late nights show up in the discipline which revolves around concentration.