Basel Dragons U11’s win closely fought Basel Indoor Tournament

In another closely fought tournament in Swiss U11 cricket, Basel Dragons won their own indoor event beating Zurich in the final.

In the league stage Zurich were the only undefeated team but the play-off between the two top teams saw Zurich post a target of 67 for Basel to win. Some strong hitting from Dayn & Luke gave the Crickets a great start and they were 47 without loss after 7 overs. Then two wickets in an over from Max and another wicket for Tom put the brakes on and sharp fielding from the Dragons restricted Zurich to 66 at the end of 12 overs. Basel had a shaky start when Tom was run out with a direct hit at the bowlers end by Dayn when the score was just 8. Some fierce hitting from Ed and Westy working the ball saw the Dragons to 55 after 8 overs before James turned the ball to square leg for Dayn to take a sharp catch off Luca. William also fell to Luca but Max & Francis calmly knocked off the last runs with 5 balls to spare.

Final standings after leagues stage

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Total
Zurich Crickets (ZC)	6	6	0	36
Basel Dragons (BD)	6	5	1	31
Gingins (GG)	6	4	2	26
Luxembourg (L)	6	3	3	21
Basel Nightfuries (BN)	6	2	4	16
Zurich Locusts (ZL)	6	1	5	11
Geneva Youth (GL)	6	0	6	6

The tournament overall saw some great performances demonstrating the rapid improvement in junior cricket in Switzerland. With 7 teams having entered, a total of 23 matches were played over 2 days!

Five batsmen scored more than 100 runs in the tournament: Dayn (ZC 126), Ed (BD 121), Archer (GG 114), James (BD 105) and Joe (ZC 105). Also of note is Max (BD) who scored a total of 72 runs in 5 innings without being dismissed and Joe (ZC) who scored the highest individual score of 59 not out.
The top wicket takers were Aryan (ZC) with 10, ED (BD), Luke (ZC) and Alex (GG) with 7 each. Best individual bowling performances were ED with 4 for 4 against Zurich Locusts and the hat-tricks by Aryan, James & Luca (ZC).

The awards for best batsman went to Ed, best individual innings to Joe, best bowler to Scott (L) for his consistency and most improved bowler to Soumil (BN) but he was run close by Harry (ZL). Luke (ZC) won the champagne moment award for his stunning diving catch from a ricochet.

Match Results Summary

1	Basel Dragons	112 for 2	beat	Basel Nightfuries	56 for 6
	Ed 21, Max 21, James 17*			Ethan 15
	Ethan 1/24, Max 1/20			Ed 3/6
2	Zurich Crickets	124 for 2	beat	Basel Nightfuries	14 for 6
	Dayn 20, Luke 22,			Shivam 5
	Ethan 1/30, Soumil 1/23			Dayn 2/1, Aryan 2/1
3	Basel Dragons	114 for 4	beat	Zurich Locusts	47 for 6
	Max 20, James 18, Ed 17			Kyle 12
	Harry 1/22, Antar 1/18			James 1/4, Ed 4/4
4	Gingins	61 for 4	beat	Luxembourg	61 for 4
	Archer 21*			William 13*
	Scott 3 for 6			Leo 2/16
5	Zurich Locusts	84 for 4	beat	Geneva Youth	83 for 2
	Shamas 9*			Theodore 6*
	Nathaniel 1/18, Finian 1/18
6	Luxembourg	138 for 0	beat	Geneva Youth	44 for 4
	Brice 21, Scott 21, Adithya 18*			Theodore 15*
	William 17*			Scott 1/2, William 1/4
7	Zurich Crickets	93 for 4	beat	Basel Dragons	92 for 4
	Dayn 25, Luke 20*			James 24, Ed 24
	Max 1 /23, William 1/ 6
8	Gingins	73 for 4	beat	Basel Nightfuries	62 for 6
	Archer 20*			Max 13
	Marc 2/11			Leo 1/16, Archer 1/15, Ricky 1/5
9	Luxembourg	96 for 3	beat	Zurich Locusts	54 for 4
	Scott 20, Adithya 22			Harry 11
	Vedant 1/14,			Scott 1/17, Ansch 1/3
10	Basel Dragons	122 for 2	beat	Geneva Youth	19 for 6
	Max 21, Tom 16, William 19,			Aakash 5
	Ed 19			James 3/0
11	Gingins	118 for 3	beat	Geneva Youth	42 for 2
	Dylan 26, Alex 24, Archer 25*			Finian 6
	Aaakash 1/10, Nathaniel 1/14,			Alex 1/11
12	Zurich Crickets	116 for 5	beat	Zurich Locusts	43 for 6
	Joe 59*			Antar 9
	Antar 2/20, Vedant 2/12			Aryan 3/15, Luke 3/7, Joe 2/4
13	Luxembourg	87 for 5	beat	Basel Nightfuries	65 for 2
	Brice 20			Ethan 19, Marc 17*
	Marc 1/14, Soumil 1/21			Kenzie 2/6
14	Basel Dragons	54 for 0	beat	Gingins	52 for 5
	James 15, Tom 14			Dylan 16
				Tom 3/3, Max 2/13
15	Zurich Crickets	135 for 1	beat	Geneva Youth	49 for 6
	Ben 20, Dayn 20, Luke 20*,			Aakash 11
				Aryan 3/9
16	Basel Nightfuries	89 for 5	beat	Zurich Locusts	76 for 3
	Max 7*			Harry 17*
	Antar 1/4			Soumil 2/7, Ethan 1/17
17	Zurich Crickets	93 for 2	beat	Luxembourg	61 for 5
	Ben 20, Dayn 22, Joe 21*			William 26
	Adithya 1/17, Shubb 1/26			Luca 3/6
18	Basel Dragons	68 for 1	beat	Luxembourg	67 for 2
	Brice 22, Scott 22			James 17, Ed 20
				Adithya 1/16
19	Gingins	110 for 0	beat	Zurich Locusts	46 for 3
	Archer 22*
				Alex 3/10
20	Zurich Crickets	69 for 1	beat	Gingins	68 for 3
	Ben 20, Luke 22			Archer 20*
	Alex 1/17			Ben 1/11, Aryan 1/6, Dayn 1/14
21	Basel Nightfuries	107 for 2	beat	Geneva Youth	67 for 3
	Marc 7, Max 7			Nathaniel 3*
	Oliver 1/15, Aakash 1/14			Shreyas 1/11
22	Luxembourg	68 for 3	beat	Gingins	64 for 5
	William 18*, Brice 15			Mattia 12*
				Adithya 2/16
23	Basel Dragons	67 for 3	beat	Zurich Crickets	66 for 6
	Ed 20*, James 14			Dayn 24, Luke 13
	Luca 2/14			Tom 1/16, Max 2/8