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Cricket: Catch and Duck

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This drill is designed to test your players reactions and is also a chance for them to work on their catching technique too.

Get into groups of 4/5

The batter / coach hits the ball and the first player takes the catch, and ducks down, still holding ball.

The second player must now catch the ball from the batter and then duck, facing chest down on the turf.

Player 3 does the same and so on...

COACHING POINTS

Players must focus on getting head position correct (still as possible) and encourage players not to lean backwards when catching.

Players can experiment with reverse hands too (concentrate on either fingers pointing downwards or in reverse position.)

Progression:

Can be done with cricket balls for more advanced players, though tennis balls are recommended.

Can be done with one handed catching.

Can be done with players starting from floor and having to spring up to take catch.

Can be done with players having to throw ball back to coach.

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Catching:

For this game you need two teams of between 6-10 players on each side.

One team tries to see how many catches they can do in a specified time, whist the other team sees how many people they can get to run around the cone and back.

Catching

Catching drill:

Partners stand opposite each other and throw a ball back and forth, trying to see how many catches they can make in a given time (e.g. 1 minute).

Catching

Short catching / Underarm throwing:

The fielder behind the stumps rolls the ball out, player 2 picks up the ball and throws over the top of the stumps to the fielder behind the stumps.

The process is repeated until player 5 goes who then continues their run to replace the player behind the stumps.

Ground fielding and throwing

Catching Drill:

Set up as shown in the diagram.

Groups of 4.

One ball per group.

Three players form a triangle with one player in the middle.

The first player throws the ball and the middle player tries to catch it, if they do then they can move on to the next person. If they drop it they have to throw the ball back to the same person and repeat this until they do catch it.

Wicket - keeping

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