Personal information | |
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Born | 7 April 2008 |
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm medium fast |
Role | All-rounder |
Relations | Andrew Flintoff |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
2024- | Lancashire |
Source:ESPNcricinfo,19 April 2024 |
Rocky Flintoff (born 7 April 2008) is an English cricketer who plays for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and right arm fast-medium bowler.
The son of Andrew Flintoff and Rachael Wools Flintoff,he has three siblings,Holly,Corey and Preston. [1] [2] He attended Manchester Grammar School and joined Lancashire County Cricket Club at a young age. His brother Corey also plays for the Lancashire academy. [3]
He started playing cricket at a local club in Alderley Edge,Cheshire and played for St Annes CC in 2020. [4] He played for North at the Bunbury Festival in 2023 and made his debut in the August of that summer for Southport and Birkdale in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition,scoring 76 from 98 balls on debut. [5] He made his debut for Lancashire second-XI in April 2024,two days after his sixteenth birthday. [6]
He made an unbeaten half-century in April 2024 for Lancashire second-XI against Durham second-XI,from 78 balls. [7] The following week,he scored his first century for Lancs second-XI,making 116 from 165 balls against Warwickshire second-XI. [8] His innings included 11 fours and three sixes and included a partnership of 39 with his older brother Corey. [9] [10] At the age of 16 years and 16 days old,he become the third youngest player to score a century in the 2nd XI Championship,and the youngest ever for Lancashire,beating the previous record of 16 years and 266 days held since 1994 by his father Andrew Flintoff. [11]
In June 2024,he signed a professional contract with Lancashire. [12]
In June 2024,he was called up to the England national under-19 cricket team. [13]
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