How good is Andrew Flintoff ?

Andrew Flintoff took a fiver at lords test grinding Australia to a 115 run defeat . Flintoff belongs to a category of very very rare species named All-rounder . He is a genuine Allrounder , not a utility player . He can easily find a place in the England team as a batter or a bowler . Right now there is no match for Andrew flintoff as an all rounder , however as compared to other great all-rounders like Sir Garfield Sobers, Kapil dev,Ian Botham , Imran Khan , Shaun Pollock where does he stand ? Frankly he along with Shaun Pollock and to some extent Abdur Razzak are the only genuine allrounders in the last decade or so .
However Andrew Flintoff is not better than the illustrious all rounders mentioned list above . In the early part of his career he struggled with weight issues . He was bulky which was bound to take its toll on Flintoff.What the heck !!!! a fast bowler bowling in excess of 140 kmph cannot carry around that much weight . He resolved the issues and came back . But the damage has been done .For a brief period he was almost unplayable and he played some very very crucial knocks. But that was it . He was plagued with injury .
On the skill level he might be on par with likes of Botham , Imran khan ,Kapil Dev and Shaun Pollock . But he did not look after his fitness in the way a professional player should have , especially in the initial yeras of his career . That has been his undoing . Fantastic player with amazing potential ,which was never tapped fully . What a waste!!!