Cricketing star, Freddie Flintoff, is wowed by a young asylum seeker from Afghanistan in the concluding episode of Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams. The third episode in the three-part BBC series sees Adnan Miekhal, 16, catch Freddie's eye, as he sets out to create a cricket team from scratch with reluctant teenagers from his hometown of Preston. The series previously looked at the story of Ben, 18, who spent some of his childhood sleeping rough. You can read more about that here.
Adnan's passion for cricket impresses Freddie when he sees him both bowl at speed and prove useful with a bat. A visibly shocked Freddie says: "I think we've found a player here, he's bowled one ball and I jumped out the way!" He adds: "He's gone through so much to get here. He's nice, he's polite, he's very talented at cricket and he deserves every bit of help he can possibly get."
According to the young talent, he never had formal coaching. Freddie says: "When you ask him, though, he says nobody has ever taught him how to play, he just played in the yard, and that was how he learned to bowl properly."
