CSK hopes that Flintoff is available during entire 3rd season!

Chennai Super Kings, the IPL franchise that paid US$ 1.55 million for Andrew Flintoff this year, hope to have the England allrounder - who announced his retirement from Test cricket today - available full time for the team next season.
Flintoff has said that he would focus on ODI and Twenty20 cricket after the ongoing Ashes series and VB Chandrasekhar, who heads cricket operations at Chennai, said that more cricketers who are nearing retirement could now take this option.

"It is always nice to have such a top cricketer to be available full time," Chandrasekhar, who is a former national selector, told Cricinfo. "I can understand why he has made this tough decision. Jacob Oram talked about how exacting it to play Test cricket with a fragile body. I see more cricketers taking this option when retirement is near the corner and the pressures tell on the body. They might retire from one format of the game."