Beard Liberation Front
10th May
England’s win in 2005 Edgbaston Test set Freddie Flintoff on path to 2005 Beard of the Year victory
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The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the Bank Holiday reprise of the 2005 Edgbaston Ashes Test between England and Australia(BBC Test Match Special, BBC Sport, Sky Cricket) captures the moment when Freddie Flintoff became a leading contender for the Beard of the Year Award at the end of the year.
Flintoff scored 68 and 73 and took 3-52 and 4-79 in the match, playing a key arguably a totemic role in England’s victory.
Flintoff was well known for starting a game with light facial hair which developed into a fuller beard as the match went on.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the BBC report notes that Flintoff usually wore some kind of stubble. Ironically under 2020 Beard of the Year rules Flintoff might not have been a contender on that basis.
BBC Report of Freddie Flintoff’s Beard of the Year victory
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4566352.stm
Full match scorecard
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