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Flintoff asks selectors to keep faith in Bopara.


London, Oct 4 (ANI): Andrew Flintoff, who is recovering from his sixth and final operation, has asked the England selectors to keep faith in the talent of Indian origin batsman Ravi Bopara.

Flintoff thinks dropping Bopara would be a huge mistake, saying: "Ravi is a fantastic talent for English cricket and I'm certain he'll come good in Test cricket
''Test match redirects here, for other uses see Test match (disambiguation)

For the women's version of the game, see .
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket.
."

"It's a joy to watch him play and he is the kind of exuberant exuberant /ex·u·ber·ant/ (eg-zoo´ber-ant) copious or excessive in production; showing excessive proliferation.

ex·u·ber·ant
adj.
Proliferating or growing excessively.
 character the game needs. I do think it's important that England should keep faith with him now.

Looking back it was a mistake to ask Ravi to bat at No 3 in the Ashes series This is a list of Ashes cricket series played between Australia and England. Most Ashes series have consisted of five Test matches between the two countries. The Ashes series with the fewest Test matches was the 1887-88 Ashes series, consisting of only one Test. . Someone else with more experience should have done that," the Daily Express quoted him, as saying.

"Yes, that's history now. But Ravi is one of the players who is the future of English cricket, and we should back his talent," Flintoff added.

Flintoff views his own sporting future with equanimity e·qua·nim·i·ty  
n.
The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure.



[Latin aequanimit
. He will never repeat the high points of winning two Ashes series, and knows that returning from his current injury is by no means guaranteed. (ANI)

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