As a prelude to the upcoming Gingins tournament, Zurich U11 played an 8-a side warm up game against the Basel Dragons. Zurich batted first with Ben and Dayn batting watchfully against some accurate Basel bowling. Ben led a charmed life with some catches going down before he was retired on 17 not out. Good contributions from Luke and Aryan kept the score moving along and although Zurich were bowled out just before the end of their innings they had amassed a good total of 105 to defend with 65 coming from extras. Zurich started their bowling extremely well with 3 overs off the reel from Luca who bowled very accurately. Special mention to Daiyyan who kept wicket for the first time and did extremely well. In the fourth over the match came alive as a drive off Dayn's fast bowling came off a thick edge high to point where Aryan took a left handed catch high above his head. Spectacular! The fielding continued to be good with some great fielding from Luke and Dylan. Now that the door was open, Dayn got another wicket with a yorker and Luca hit the stumps as well. But there was more to come in our fielding...Aryan claimed another spectacular low catch off a leading edge before Sam came on and bowled well to claim 2 wickets. The final one gave Aryan his hatrick of catches as the ball hit the ceiling , deflected and he was able to move the other way to claim the catch and the match. So well done to the all the boys, especially Aryan and Daiyyan. We did give away 44 extras in the 11 overs we bowled in the match, so could well be practicing bowling straight this weekend... For the full scorecard please see: http://www.crichq.com/matches/22353#inning2