Former cricket star and TV presenter Andrew Flintoff has said he “didn’t know if I had it in me to carry on” after his crash at the Top Gear test track.

The 47-year-old was speaking on the third series of his Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams series, which is subtitled Ultimate Test, and sees the ex-England captain attempt to build new cricket teams from teenagers who have limited experience of the game.

In the series’ first episode Flintoff attempts to build his first team of girls in Blackpool , and one of the teenagers he invites to join them asks him: “How hard was it to leave your house again?” after the crash.

Flintoff replied: “It was, what – 18 months ago? And you know, I’ve suffered with things like depression in the past before, but this time was different.

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