it is not correct in Flintoff part to made such a wild allegation on Delhi Spectators.The is only to create sensation to sell his new Autobiography book
Why Mr. Flintoff Kept silance for so long. and all of a sudden ,when he became hero in Ashes started such thing. Another attempt to damage image of India.
Throwing rocks and plastic bottles as missiles onto the cricket ground is itself very bad,but to be told now that he was 'shot at' at the Kotla ground is really something worse than a crowd-midemeanor that ought to have been brought out into the open for condemnation.But does the player concerned feel that it was for sure,as he didn't seem to have been physically hurt,but actually was able to carry on with the tour as though nothing of that had ever happened.Were the 'pellets'allegedly fired real stuff, or mock ones discharged playfully ! With the English team's forthcoming series in India, the timing of the revelation of the incident assumes relevance and significance.
The claim of Flintoff that he was shot at on January 31, 2002 during a one-dayer in Delhi surpizes me most, since the spectators in India love the game so much that they would never think of harming a player. K. Mallick
"I felt something hit me and, looking down, saw pellets on the ground," says Andrew Flintoff about the time he played ODI at Delhi's Feroze Shah Kotla ground last year. Well. I wish he had concocted something more convincing! He gets shot at, there is pellets on the ground, and yet he does not get injured, there is no blood. What is this cock and bull story that he has come out with! If he had to write something titilating, he could have taken something out of 7/7 or 21/7 that happened in his country, and he could have projected himself as one of the would-have-been hurt/killed and that would have been more convincing. This crap is as pathetic as the time he removed his jersey at the Wankhete statium, Mumbai.
On the rediff Home Page dated 21/09/2005, 13.44 IST the linked "Flintoff claims he was shot in 2005" in in the detailed link it appears that Flintoff claims he was shot in 2002. So correct your Headline if I am right. If I am wrong in reading the statement then I appologise for that.
