England 249 (Crawley 94, Johal 3-25) lead Prime Minister’s XI 136 (Reddy 60, Carse 4-48) by 113 runs
After opting to bowl, England dismissed the Prime Minister’s XI shortly after lunch, with Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse sharing the wickets. They then raced into the lead, Crawley offering the impetus in an innings that featured 14 fours and two sixes.
Ben Stokes, England’s Take a look at captain, sat out day one of many two-day sport, with Ollie Pope main the facet in his absence.
The youthful PM XI, which featured 5 gamers aged 23 or below, have been quickly in bother towards England’s new-ball pair of Woakes and Atkinson, who took two apiece up entrance to go away the hosts 20 for 4.
Snehith Reddy, the 17-year-old New Zealand U19 allrounder, hit 60 from No. 6 however Carse – one in every of 5 bowlers used, alongside Matt Potts and Shoaib Bashir – helped England chip out the remainder of the order.
Crawley launched the reply in sometimes aggressive trend, placing on 90 in 15.1 overs alongside Ollie Pope (42) for the second wicket and 50 in seven overs with Joe Root for the third, earlier than the innings resulted in a clatter of wickets.
England are anticipated to offer most of their 16-man squad sport time within the match, which is their solely warm-up fixture earlier than the primary Take a look at in Christchurch, beginning on Thursday.
