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Flintoff TV show refugee makes Lancs Second XI debut

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Anyone who watched BBC TV series Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams will remember Adnan Miakhel.

He was the teenage Afghan refugee who arrived in the UK on the back of a lorry in 2021 and, with limited formal cricket training, became the star bowler when former England captain Andrew Flintoff cobbled together a team of disadvantaged boys in Preston.

He spoke then about the dream of playing cricket professionally in England.

That dream moved a small step closer this week after he made his debut for Lancashire's Second XI.