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Rocky Flintoff scored 93 runs.
On the second day of the Under-19 Test being played in Bekenham, England batsman Rocky Flintoff missed a century by just 7 runs. He was dismissed for 93 by Devendra Devendran, 5 minutes before the stumps. Captain Hamza Sheikh also played an important innings of 84 runs with Rocky Flintoff.
By the end of the second day’s play, England had lost 5 wickets for 230 runs, and are still 310 runs behind India’s score of 540 runs. Henil Patel took 2 wickets for India.
England’s poor start England started poorly. In the very first over, Henil Patel lbw Archie Von. Jayden Denley got life but Henil bowled him on a brilliant ball. After this, Rocky Flintoff and captain Hamza Sheikh jointly shared a 154 -run partnership.
Sheikh also hit Anmoljit Singh a six on the long off, but 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi caught him on mid-off. Ben Mayis scored 11 runs and wilhan was LBW by Malhotra. Thomas Ru got a life but in the end Anmoljit gave LBW to Flintoff and gave England a big blow.
Ayush’s century in first innings India scored 540 runs in the first innings. Captain Ayush Mhatre scored a century. He played a brilliant innings of 102 runs in 115 balls. RS Ambarish scored 70 runs, while Alex Green from England took 3 wickets. Left arm spinner Ralfi Albert also took three wickets.
Ayush also hit 14 fours and 2 sixes in his innings.
England left catch India started playing ahead of the first day score 450/7 and despite leaving some catches, England gradually took wickets. Ambarish was out by catching the wicketkeeper off Green. Henil Patel scored 38 runs and then Albert got him out. After this, Albert bowled Devendran and ended India’s innings.