{"id":382479,"date":"2026-01-21T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:13:09","slug":"under-19s-cricket-world-cup-ben-mayes-hits-191-for-england-against-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382479\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-19s Cricket World Cup: Ben Mayes hits 191 for England against Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Mayes has struck the highest score by an England youth player, smashing 191 in their Under-19s World Cup group stage match against Scotland in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire&#8217;s Mayes, 18, fell one short of the overall record tournament score of 192, set by Sri Lanka&#8217;s Viran Chamuditha against Japan four days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The right-hander, who was batting at number three, smashed 18 fours and eight sixes in his blistering 117-ball knock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was well supported by Lancashire&#8217;s Joe Moores &#8211; nephew of former England coach Peter &#8211; who hit 81 off 65 balls in a second-wicket stand of 188.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayes takes the national record from Dan Lawrence, who hit 174 for England against Fiji in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The highest score in a full one-day international for England is Ben Stokes&#8217; 182 against New Zealand in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England finished on 404-6 &#8211; the seventh-highest total in tournament history and the first time England themselves have passed 400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland were bundled out for just 152 in reply, with Finlay Carter (34) the only batter to offer any real resistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesex all-rounder Caleb Falconer added to his 32 with the bat with 3-19 to send England into the Super Sixes stage with a 100% record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Mayes has struck the highest score by an England youth player, smashing 191 in their Under-19s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}