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In the ongoing second youth Test against the English team, Mhatre scored 80 runs from 90 balls in the first innings and 124 runs from 80 balls in the second.
Ayush Mhatre equals Brendon McCullum’s 24-year-old batting record. (Picture Credit: PTI, AFP)
Ayush Mhatre is the captain of the India U-19 team, and on Wednesday (July 23), the right-handed batter from Mumbai was on fire with the bat against the England U-19 side. He opened for the visitors in the second innings of the second youth Test at County Ground in Chelmsford and completed his century in just 64 balls. The century on Wednesday is Mhatre’s second century in the youth Test.
In the first innings of the first youth Test played at Kent County Cricket Ground in Beckenham last week, Mhatre scored 102 runs from 115 balls.
Mhatre, who plays for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, smacked 126 runs from 80 balls with the help of 13 fours and six sixes on Wednesday, and his batting strike rate was 157.50.
In the first innings of the ongoing match, he scored 80 runs from 90 balls with a strike rate of 88.89.
Mhatre, who is 18 years old, scored a total of 206 runs in the second youth Test from just 170 balls, and his strike rate in the game was 121.17.
The batting strike rate of 121.17 helped Mhatre equal former New Zealand captain and star batter Brendon McCullum’s 24-year-old batting record.
During the 2001 New Zealand-South Africa youth Test played in Lincoln from February 4 to 7, McCullum also scored more than 200 runs in the match with a strike rate of 100+.
200+ runs in a U19 Test match at 100+ strike rate121.17 – Ayush Mhatre🇮🇳 v ENG, 2025Scroed 206 off 170
108.41 – Brendon McCullum🇳🇿 v SA, 2001Scored 232 off 214
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) July 23, 2025
In that fixture, McCullum scored 186 runs from 172 balls (SR 108.13) in the first innings after coming out to bat at No. 6 and 46 not out from 42 balls (SR 109.52) in the second innings.
Interestingly, like Mhatre, McCullum was also the captain of the New Zealand team in that match.
Suryavanshi out for 0
14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who was India’s best batter in the five-match youth ODI series against the English team, failed to fire with the bat in the second innings of the second youth Test. He, in fact, was not able to open his account as well and was sent back to the pavilion for a first-ball duck by Alex Green. Green breached his defence and shattered his stumps.
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