This is the moment Freddie Flintoff and his unlikely team of young cricketers agree to fast for a day as a gesture to their Muslim teammate who was taking part in Ramadan.

In a clip from the new series of the former Top Gear host’s Field Of Dreams documentary, Afghan refugee Adnan opens up about how difficult it is seeing his friends feast while he is unable to.

The BBC series, which sees the ex-England all-rounder take his motley crew of Lancashire teens on tour to India, was nearly scrapped when he narrowly survived a horror car crash filming Top Gear shortly before the trip.

On one of the boys’ mornings in India, Adnan admits that he is ‘thinking about food’ when he joins the team for their breakfast, five hours after he woke up for his pre-sunrise meal in line with the rules of Ramadan.

‘It’s hard when I sit here and all of you guys are eating,’ he adds.

This is the moment Freddie Flintoff proposes that his unlikely team of young cricketers join their Muslim teammate, Adnan, in fasting for Ramadan for a day

Adnan, an Afghan refugee who moved to the UK on his own aged 15, admitted his loneliness as the only Muslim on the team, adding: ‘It’s hard when I sit here and all of you guys are eating’

After Flintoff’s suggestion, the motley crew of Lancashire teens agree to join their Muslim teammate for a day, in not eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset

Flintoff, 46, proposed that the team join Adnan in fasting for a day, and they all oblige.

Ramadan is a sacred month in the Islamic calendar during which practicing Muslims do not eat or drink anything between sunrise and sunset.

‘For me, my religion and prayer time is very important. It helps me a lot with everything,’ Adnan said in an earlier scene, before admitting that as the only Muslim on the team, ‘I feel so lonely.’

The latest episode also detailed the former asylum seeker’s journey to the UK, which he made aged just 15, adding that now 18 Adnan has not spoken to his family since.

‘I miss them a lot,’ Adnan told Flintoff. ‘I still remember [when I left home].

‘It was a very hard situation. My mum, she came to me crying and she said, “your life is in danger, I won’t be able to see you again”.

‘So I left Afghanistan. At that time, at 15 years old, I was really scared.’

He went on to explain his route to Lancashire – smuggled from Afghanistan to Iran, from Iran to Turkey and through Europe.

The refugee revealed he had been beaten by police six times en route as he tried to cross borders, including being stood on and hit in the head.

Flintoff had to fight back tears as he grappled with the thought of a teenager being so isolated from his family through such an ordeal. 

Filming of Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams On Tour was pushed back by a year, after a small amount of filming had been completed in the UK, because of his death-defying escape from a crash filming Top Gear

The latest episode also detailed the former asylum seeker’s journey to the UK, which he made aged just 15, adding that now 18 Adnan has not spoken to his family since

Flintoff had to fight back tears as he grappled with the thought of a teenager being so isolated from his family as he was smuggled across borders

The cricket legend said his inspirational team of youngsters ‘puts things into perspective’ when thinking about his own injury hell

Elsewhere in the episode, the cricket legend said his inspirational team of youngsters ‘puts things into perspective’ when thinking about his own injury hell.

Speaking in the show, he said: ‘You come to a place like this and see all these kids, it’s inspiring isn’t it? All of them have had hardship in their lives.

‘It puts things a little into perspective for me. We’ve all had hard things we’ve had to get through in our lives, me included and our lads. It pales into significance in comparison.’

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Inside Freddie Flintoff’s life now after Top Gear horror crash as new Field of Dreams series begins

Filming of Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams On Tour was pushed back by a year, after a small amount of filming had been completed in the UK, because of his death-defying escape from a crash filming Top Gear.

He also said the after effects of the crash might follow him ‘for the rest of my life’ and said he believes he ‘genuinely shouldn’t be here’ after he flipped a three-wheeled Morgan Super 3 at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome.

The father-of-three has left fans in tears yet again after revealing it had been ‘so hard to cope’ with crippling anxiety that left him unable to leave the house in the months following the incident.

He spoke in the series’ debut about his suffering of ‘nightmares and flashbacks’ as he opened up on the struggle, and told his team of teens he might need to leave to ‘go cry in my room’ if things become too overwhelming after his struggles to leave the house in the aftermath of the incident.

Earlier in the series, the he opened up about suffering from nightmares and flashbacks to the crash

Flintoff also shared shocking images of his injuries from just a week-and-a-half after the crash 

Flintoff had been test driving a three-wheel Morgan Spencer 3 when it flipped over on the Top Gear race track

Flintoff quit Top Gear and reached a £9million settlement with the BBC following the crash. Pictured: Flintoff (left) with his Top Gear co-hosts Paddy McGuinness (centre) and Chris Harris (right)

Flintoff also shared shocking images of his injuries from just a week-and-a-half after the crash, with viewers praising the ‘inspirational’ former cricket star for his candidness with many left ‘crying their eyes out’ at the programme.

The presenter reportedly reached a £9million settlement with the BBC over the crash which was paid for by the broadcaster’s commercial arm, before officially quitting Top Gear – which has since been put on hiatus.

In one part of Field Of Dreams, filmed seven months after the accident, it is revealed he has had a number of operations. But the programme explains that apart from hospital appointments Flintoff has rarely been leaving the house.

He tells the show: ‘I thought I could just shake it off. I wanted to shake it off and say ‘I’m alright’ but it’s not been a case of that. It’s been a lot harder than I thought. As much as I wanted to go out and do things, I’ve just not been able to.’