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Basel CC (Adult side) vs. Switzerland U17's. (40 overs per side match) 27 April 2008.
Ok so this was pretty much a friendly match to get the U17's to gel together as a team as the Swiss U17's would be heading to Germany for the Europeen Championships division 2 in August and this would kind of also help in the selection process. (fingers crossed for selection)
Losing the toss, we were put into fielding first and were pretty disciplined until about the 15th over keeping their run rate to about 3 an over, though we didn't take enough wickets and then they started smacking us all over the place and were looking set to post something about 230'ish. Though we restricted them pretty well in the last 5 overs and took wickets at regular intervals. (6 wickets in the last 5 overs) and restricted them to 202. I was pretty satisfied with my overall bowling spell, a little dissapointed at the third over of my first spell that included three wides, but other than that, I was doing a pretty good job. I got bowling figures of 5/21/1. (overs/runs/wickets)
I was put down at number 4 and the team got off to a bad start as one of our opening batsmen got out on 1 and then there was a little partnership. for the 2nd wicket though a very slow one as by 17 overs, we had only put 32 on the board. With the other opening batsman getting out, there was kind of a sigh of relief in the camp as he played pretty slow. (Even for a test match that would be slow: 5 runs off 43 balls)
I went in and worked away the ball for singles and doubles and in the 19th over, the number 3 batsman also got out (captain) and we were in deeper trouble, though in coming at number 5 was our best batsman and the only real known big hitter in the side. For the first couple of overs (until over # 25) and then we decided that the number 5 would go for the big hitting while I would try to rotate the strike as much as possible. We stood out there until the 30th over before we were asked to retire to give other people some chance and we had a partnership of 94 runs off 69 balls. I made 20* off 40 balls and the other guy made 53* off 42. (The rest of the runs coming from extras, most of them leg byes) By the time we retired, the score was 143 and we would've been in with a serious chance of winning if we didn't have to retire. Though since it was just a friendly kind of a match, we agreed to retire to let the other guys have a go at it too, in the end, we only managed a 167 off the 40 overs, but I was pretty satisfied with my effort and performance.
Basel CC (Adult side) vs. Switzerland U17's. (40 overs per side match) 27 April 2008.
Ok so this was pretty much a friendly match to get the U17's to gel together as a team as the Swiss U17's would be heading to Germany for the Europeen Championships division 2 in August and this would kind of also help in the selection process. (fingers crossed for selection)
Losing the toss, we were put into fielding first and were pretty disciplined until about the 15th over keeping their run rate to about 3 an over, though we didn't take enough wickets and then they started smacking us all over the place and were looking set to post something about 230'ish. Though we restricted them pretty well in the last 5 overs and took wickets at regular intervals. (6 wickets in the last 5 overs) and restricted them to 202. I was pretty satisfied with my overall bowling spell, a little dissapointed at the third over of my first spell that included three wides, but other than that, I was doing a pretty good job. I got bowling figures of 5/21/1. (overs/runs/wickets)
I was put down at number 4 and the team got off to a bad start as one of our opening batsmen got out on 1 and then there was a little partnership. for the 2nd wicket though a very slow one as by 17 overs, we had only put 32 on the board. With the other opening batsman getting out, there was kind of a sigh of relief in the camp as he played pretty slow. (Even for a test match that would be slow: 5 runs off 43 balls)
I went in and worked away the ball for singles and doubles and in the 19th over, the number 3 batsman also got out (captain) and we were in deeper trouble, though in coming at number 5 was our best batsman and the only real known big hitter in the side. For the first couple of overs (until over # 25) and then we decided that the number 5 would go for the big hitting while I would try to rotate the strike as much as possible. We stood out there until the 30th over before we were asked to retire to give other people some chance and we had a partnership of 94 runs off 69 balls. I made 20* off 40 balls and the other guy made 53* off 42. (The rest of the runs coming from extras, most of them leg byes) By the time we retired, the score was 143 and we would've been in with a serious chance of winning if we didn't have to retire. Though since it was just a friendly kind of a match, we agreed to retire to let the other guys have a go at it too, in the end, we only managed a 167 off the 40 overs, but I was pretty satisfied with my effort and performance.