{"id":6460,"date":"2026-01-21T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:16:13","slug":"under-19s-cricket-world-cup-ben-mayes-hits-191-for-england-against-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6460","title":{"rendered":"Under-19s Cricket World Cup: Ben Mayes hits 191 for England against Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">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.<\/b><\/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\">England finished on 404-6 &#8211; the seventh-highest score in tournament history and the first time England themselves have passed 400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland are yet to bat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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. The right-hander, who was batting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}