{"id":21614,"date":"2025-01-23T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/rocky-flintoff-scores-century-for-england-lions-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:22:11","slug":"rocky-flintoff-scores-century-for-england-lions-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/rocky-flintoff-scores-century-for-england-lions-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Flintoff scores century for England Lions in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rocky Flintoff, son of former England all-rounder Andrew, scored a century for England Lions against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flintoff, 16, was batting at number nine and struck 108 from 127 balls in the Lions&#8217; first-innings 319 all out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is being coached by his father for the Lions tour, where the England team were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-226222\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beaten by seven wickets<\/a> in the first match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flintoff&#8217;s century helped the Lions build a healthy lead over Cricket Australia, who trail by 72 runs having reached 33-1 in their second innings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Alex Davies&#8217; 76 was the second-highest score while Freddie McCann, who made 51, also helped rescue the Lions from 161-7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c23nm5jd8z5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Flintoff, son of former England all-rounder Andrew, scored a century for England Lions against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane. Flintoff, 16, was batting at number nine and struck 108 from 127 balls in the Lions&#8217; first-innings 319 all out. He is being coached by his father for the Lions tour, where the England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[409,3054,278,8156,4717,2911,415],"class_list":["post-21614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-australia","tag-century","tag-england","tag-flintoff","tag-lions","tag-rocky","tag-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21616,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions\/21616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}