- Rocky Flintoff burst onto the scene earlier than he had even sat his GCSEs
- His older brother Corey is now closing in on getting his personal skilled deal
- The youngsters need to comply with within the footsteps of their Ashes-winning dad
Think about not solely coping with the well-known surname, but additionally having your thunder stolen by a junior sibling making headlines in males’s cricket earlier than sitting his GCSEs.
That has been the lot of latest occasions for Corey Flintoff, who hopes to comply with 16-year-old brother Rocky into the county cricket ranks forward of the 2025 season beginning subsequent week.
Mail Sport understands Flintoff, 19, is beneath critical consideration for a rookie deal at Kent after impressing the teaching workers led by Adam Hollioake throughout a trial interval that included him bowling a four-over, pre-lunch spell of seam towards Essex at Canterbury on Friday.
Earlier this week, he practised with the Kent squad on the St Lawrence Floor as his father Andrew Flintoff, the England Lions head coach, watched on.
In distinction to Rocky, whose outstanding rise included him hitting 100 for the Lions in Australia earlier this 12 months, Corey has had issues powerful, spending the previous two summers battling a stress fracture of the again.
Since final September, when his academy contract with Lancashire expired, the bowling all-rounder has been again at Emirates Previous Trafford coaching in readiness for a possibility with one of many 18 first-class golf equipment to emerge.
Corey Flintoff (pictured along with his dad Andrew in 2013) is about to land himself an expert deal
His youthful brother, Rocky (pictured), already has a deal after bursting onto the scene in 2024
Ashes hero Andrew Flintoff has moved into teaching, and has seen his sons rise by way of the ranks in latest months
Sporting the quantity 17 shirt of Nathan Gilchrist, he pounded in to bowl to Essex captain Tom Westley and Michael Pepper, one of many gamers referred to as up by England final winter.
Though he went wicketless, it was however a welcome signal for a participant who managed simply 4 Second XI Championship appearances plus 4 within the Twenty20 competitors because of the again points that additionally plagued his dad as a teen.
Rookie contracts for county cricketers beneath the age of 21 are set at £20,000 per 12 months. Rocky signed his first one for Lancashire final June, weeks after hitting 100 for the second XI towards Warwickshire, and have become the membership’s youngest first-class participant when he made his debut towards county champions Surrey seven months in the past.
In January, he broke one among his dad’s information, turning into the youngest England Lions or A centurion with 126 towards a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane.
