Andrew Flintoff Son Rocky Flintoff: The son of England’s legendary player Andrew Flintoff is preparing to go even further than him in cricket. Actually, Rocky Flintoff has scored a century while playing for England Lions in domestic cricket. He has now become the youngest batsman in history to score a century for this team. Rocky, playing for England Lions, scored a century against Cricket Australia XI at the age of 16 years and 291 years. Earlier this record was in the name of his father Andrew Flintoff, who had played a century for England Lions at the age of 20 years and 28 days.
Broke father’s record at the age of 16
In this match, Cricket Australia XI scored 214 runs while batting first, in response to which England Lions team lost 7 wickets till the score of 161. In such a situation, Rocky Flintoff came to bat at ninth position and as soon as he came, he scored runs rapidly. He made an important partnership of 66 runs with Freddy McCann. Freddy scored 51 runs, but Rocky Flintoff was in no mood to stop. He scored 108 runs in 127 balls. In this innings he also hit 9 fours and 6 sixes.
Thanks to Rocky Flintoff’s inning of 108 runs, England Lions scored 316 runs in the first innings and took a huge lead of 102 runs. By the end of the second day’s play, Cricket Australia XI has scored 33 runs at the loss of 1 wicket in the second innings and is still 69 runs behind England Lions.
Let us tell you that Rocky Flintoff got the opportunity to play in the England Under-19 team against South Africa only last month. In July last year, he became the youngest batsman to score a century in the history of England Under-19 cricket. Rocky also bowls fast with his right hand.
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