It was an afternoon to remember for 11-year-old Dee Jarvis on Sunday after he took a remarkable hat-trick against several former professional cricketers.

The youngster from Milton-under-Wychwood was picked out of the crowd by former England bowler Matthew Hoggard and asked to bowl the penultimate over in a charity match between a Brian Lara XI and Warwickshire 1994 All-Stars at Wormsley in Buckinghamshire.

The event raised more than £50,000 for the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation.

The Lara XI, playing in the colours of Rwanda, included Ashes winning former Eng-land captain Andrew Strauss, and England women’s vice-captain Heather Knight. Warwickshire reached a total of 218-7 before the WarwickshireAll-Stars responded with 189.

Jarvis’ first victim was Keith Piper, who was stumped by ex-England wicketkeeper Paul Nixon first ball. Then Michael Bell was trapped lbw for 23 before former England international Gladstone Small was stumped for first ball to complete the incredible feat.

“He was over the moon,” said Jarvis’s father Tim.

“Brian Lara asked Matthew Hoggard to pick out the best bowler from among the kids and he’d seen Dee having a go in the nets before the game, so they put him on to bowl.

“It was fantastic how it all unfolded, to go from watching in the stands to fielding and eventually being offered the chance to bowl.

“Dee lives and breathes cricket – he was smiling from ear to ear.”

And fast bowler Jarvis, who represents Oxfordshire at Under 11 level as well as captaining Minster Lovell Under 11s, could not hide his delight at being named man-of-the match afterwards at a presentation by Lara.

He said: “It felt really good to have the chance to play with them and to be named man of the match afterwards.

“I didn’t expect it at all, it was the best feeling in the world.”