Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams - Season 3

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?