LONDON: Ashes hero Andrew Flintoff is to coach his son on next month’s England Lions cricket tour of Australia. Rocky Flintoff, 16, has been included in England’s second-string side during a tour that will include two four-day matches against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane followed by a ‘Test’ against Australia A in Sydney. Flintoff junior was a late inclusion in the Lions squad during their training camp in South Africa earlier this month. An all-rounder, like his father, Rocky made his debut for Lancashire during the summer and has impressed for the England Young Lions. The 16-strong squad announced Wednesday for the Lions’ tour of Australia also includes five players — Shoaib Bashir, Pat Brown, Tom Hartley, Josh Tongue and John Turner — who have represented England at senior level. Flintoff is involved with the England white-ball set-up and went on to coach the Northern Superchargers in the English domestic game’s Hundred competition. The 47-year-old former England captain told Britain’s PA news agency: “I always wanted to do something in cricket and I was never quite sure what it was. “I have dabbled a little bit, I’ve done a bit of commentary, which I didn’t particularly like and it’s not really me. I have always had an ambition to coach but I’m not quite sure my route to doing that, or who I’d coach and let’s be honest, who’d have me?”