Andrew Flintoff has walked away from his role as Northern Superchargers head coach, suggesting the team\u2019s new Indian owners made him feel undervalued, offering him a salary about 25% of that offered to his peers at other Hundred teams.<\/p>\n
Flintoff, who remains one of the biggest stars in English cricket, led the Headingley-based franchise in the past two editions of the tournament.<\/p>\n
The former England captain revealed the news on the Beard Before Wicket podcast, co-hosted by the Superchargers spinner Adil Rashid, indicating he would have liked to stay on after overseeing a third-placed finish this year.<\/p>\n
But he claimed conversations with the Sun Group, which bought the full 100% stake in Superchargers as part of the influx of new investors in the competition, quickly broke down.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately I\u2019m not going to do it, which is sad,\u201d Flintoff said. \u201cThe past two years I felt we were building something really nice and I\u2019d have loved to see it through.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got new owners, I spoke to them. They phoned up, they said they wanted us to do it, so I said: \u2018Yeah, fine. Make us an offer.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI genuinely don\u2019t do it for the money, although it\u2019s nice, but I think I\u2019m worth [more] than just over a quarter of the [salary of] other head coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe money was one thing so I\u2019m not quite sure they wanted me anyway, but then you also want to feel valued. I said: \u2018This isn\u2019t going to work for me,\u2019 and they weren\u2019t going to move on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rashid, one of the team\u2019s marquee players, told Flintoff: \u201cYou\u2019ll be missed. I wasn\u2019t expecting that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flintoff, who is also head coach of England Lions, may interest other Hundred teams as the influence of new investors is felt. London Spirit have lured Andy Flower away from Trent Rockets and further personnel changes are likely.<\/p>\n
Superchargers, meanwhile, are poised to change their name to incorporate the Sunrisers branding of their Indian Premier League and SA20 stablemates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Flintoff has walked away from his role as Northern Superchargers head coach, suggesting the team\u2019s new Indian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-187496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}