Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams - Episode Guide

Freddie Flintoff attempts to create a brand new cricket team from an unlikely group of teens. He is determined to prove that anyone can play competitive cricket, whatever their background.

Undeterred by the somewhat negative reception to his idea, he holds try-outs in his hometown of Preston and starts a training regime with a group of lively teenagers. He meets 15-year-old Sean, who has attended several different schools, and 17-year-old Ammar, who moved to the UK six years ago and had never even heard of Freddie. The boys have a lot to learn in a very short space of time, as they will ultimately be competing against teams that have been playing together for years, whereas most of these boys have never even picked up a cricket bat before.

Although they have just a few weeks of chaotic training and only a vague notion of the rules, Freddie is keen to test the boys' progress and get them to play their first ever cricket match. However, not everyone in his urban posse is impressed with the rural setting or the traditions of cricket that Freddie is trying to draw them to.

After the chaos of the first match, sporting legend Freddie Flintoff is on the hunt for a cricket club for his unlikely team to call home. He also needs funding, but some of the boys' behaviour is threatening the side's ability to prepare for their next match.

A surprising new addition to the team gives Freddie and the boys a fighting chance of securing their first victory. If he can keep the team under control, then his dream of taking kids who have never played cricket and giving them a lasting love of the game might just come true.

Freddie must galvanise his new cricket team to take on an elite private school. However, a split in the ranks is threatening the training sessions, and Freddie must do all he can to bring the team back together to take on their toughest challenge yet. He also has to make sure their new cricket club is renovated and open for the start of the season. He invites some of England's top ex-professionals to play one final match against his boys to celebrate the reopening of the club, and for the first time he plays alongside the boys. But has he managed to fulfil his wish and create a legacy for the both the team and the local community?

Sporting hero Freddie Flintoff returns to Preston with plans to take his team on a cricket tour to India. But weeks before the trip to Kolkata, a life-changing accident threatens to put a halt to their dreams.

One year later, Freddie visits his team to announce the trip is back on. But in India the team must learn to live with each other and as the lads prepare to compete in one of the most revered cricketing nations in the world, not everyone adapts to the challenges of their new environment.

As Freddie Flintoff's cricket team struggle to embrace parts of India's culture, the first training session reveals their new player, who could give them a chance of a first win in the country.

Life in India with his unlikely cricket team pushes Freddie Flintoff to his limit, but he must prepare the boys for their toughest cricket match yet, as well as a prestigious event.

Freddie Flintoff's unlikely cricket team gear up for the final match of their Indian cricket tour as they face their toughest opponents yet.

Having created a cricket team like no other in his hometown of Preston and taken them on a life-changing tour to India, sporting legend Freddie Flintoff is determined to prove that his previous success wasn't a one-off. He's now set his sights on a much more ambitious plan, hoping to create several new teams of teenagers across the north west.

First, he heads to Liverpool and finds a club that is attracting teenagers for all the wrong reasons, so in an attempt to persuade local kids to give cricket a try, he visits a PRU, where he faces a tough crowd. Freddie also travels to Blackpool and, after meeting a much more receptive bunch of girls, holds try-outs at a local cricket club. However, it's not long before he's completely out of his comfort zone, as he's never coached females before.

Despite the challenges of coaching two new teams of reluctant teens, sporting legend Freddie Flintoff has decided to expand his league of dreams even further. He heads to Manchester and discovers one of the most dilapidated clubs he has ever seen, with a clubhouse that is almost derelict and not enough players for even one team. Freddie sets himself an almost impossible challenge, a deadline to get it back up and running by the end of the summer.

In Blackpool, the girls' team suffers a crisis of confidence when Freddie introduces the hard ball to training, then to make matters worse, there's a divide in the team. If they are going to play their first match, he desperately needs to get them working together. Will taking them off the pitch and into the countryside be the answer? Not everyone is impressed with the new surroundings, yet Freddie is determined to find a way to unite the team.

Meanwhile in Liverpool, the Bootle boys continue to push boundaries with their behaviour, but Freddie's chat with local lad Michael reveals some of the challenging upbringings the boys have had to deal with.

When just a handful of teenagers turn up to training in Manchester, Presley and the boys are forced to go on a recruitment drive in order to save their team, but sporting legend Freddie is facing a losing battle to fundraise the large sums of money needed to restore their club to its former glory. Meanwhile, in Blackpool, after the successful team building day, Freddie's girls' team finally play their first match against a prestigious girls' boarding school. Out of their comfort zone, some struggle to control their last-minute nerves. Keen to learn more about one of the girls, Freddie visits her supported living accommodation to try to understand the challenges she's faced.

In Liverpool, only a few lads turn up to training, leaving Freddie to question their commitment before a second match. The Bootle boys, however, are determined to secure their first win as they face surprise opponents that make them question far more than their cricket abilities.

As sporting legend Freddie Flintoff struggles to ensure a lasting impact on his new teams, in Manchester it's crunch time, when he's forced to make a drastic decision to leave Newton Heath cricket club. But first, he must find his team a new home.

To help with the growing responsibility of managing all his new cricket teams, Freddie decides to expand his roster of coaches and calls on Adnan and Eli from his original squad to help. But when Eli turns up in Blackpool to coach the girls, the session doesn't quite go to plan.

Meanwhile in Blackpool, to help attract the next generation of young players to their club, some reluctant girls are roped in to deliver a cricket training session at a local primary school, with surprising and heartwarming results.

The months of hard training for all the teams culminates in a cricket festival with the original Preston lads also making an appearance, but has Freddie managed to make an impact on the kids both on and off the pitch?