Flintoff: England have the energy to win

'It will be disappointing if we finish with the defeat after all the hard work we put in during this summer' © Getty Images

Andrew Flintoff has emphasised the importance of staging a comeback against Pakistan in the one-day series to finish the year on a positive note. England lost the Test series against Pakistan - a blemish on a year of unprecedented success in which Michael Vaughan and his team regained the Ashes.

"I think it's important we finish off the year well," said Flintoff, ahead of the fourth one-day match at Rawalpindi on Monday. England won the opening one-day match by 42 runs, but fared poorly in the second going down by seven wickets - with both matches played at Lahore. They need to win the next two matches in order to clinch the five-match series.

"It will be disappointing if we finish with the defeat after all the hard work we put in during this summer," said Flintoff. "It's disappointing the way in which we played since winning the first match. As a batting group we have not really fired, we didn't post enough runs for the bowlers in the second game and in Karachi, Pakistan just batted well."

Flintoff, who starred in England's Ashes win with 402 runs and 24 wickets in five Tests, said Pakistan batted much better than England in Karachi.

"We were played out of the park (in Karachi) and Pakistan were excellent," he said. "We have to play well on Monday if we want to level the series and go one up on Wednesday.

"We have got the energy...we have come from behind before and played some good cricket over the past few years and we have to do it again. We have got two games and we have to win both, it's as simple as that."