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Flintoff was accused by Duncan Fletcher, Moores's predecessor, of arriving for practice under the influence of alcohol.

But Moores said: "History starts for me the day I took over. That's the only fair way to go.

"To be fair to Freddie he's been great. He's got stuck in and done his work."

Flintoff came in for some heavy criticism in Fletcher's autobiography, with the Zimbabwean revealing that he had to cancel a training session in Australia last winter because the all-rounder and then captain was drunk.

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