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Cricket: Front foot Drive

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The Coach feeds 6 balls to each batsman, who have to drive the ball through the set of cones.

COACHING POINTS

If the ball is driven through the 1st set of cones gets you 1 run. If it's driven through the 2nd set of cones you get 4 runs.

The batsmen then rotate around.

If the batsman leaves a feed he may have another feed.

With younger players a large tennis ball, Volley ball or small football should be used for this exercise.

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Attacking front foot drives:

Player 2 throws. Each batsman has 3 consecutive balls, then goes to the back of the queue. If you leave a ball you get another go. The ball should be a slow high underarm feed.

Front foot batting

Driving Game:

With between 5-8 players on each team. Each batsmen must drive on one out of 3 deliveries and run on the driven one, then complete two runs. The fielders must stay behind the boundary until the ball is hit. If a boundary is hit the batsmen gets an additional 3 balls. If the ball is hit out of the grounds then 6 runs are awarded.
1) Bat until all out or
2) Bat until teams wickets are used up i.e. 4 wickets per team.

Ground fielding and throwing

Front foot defence - leaving the ball:

The coach throws on one knee with a football style throw in, which the batsmen have to defend by hitting back through the cones, with 6 balls each.

Ground fielding and throwing

Driving for Boundaries:

1 side bats and the other fields.

Each batter gets 3 feeds each and extra ones if they hit the ball over the boundary, and if the ball if left another feed is given.

If the ball is hit over the boundary in the air then no runs are rewarded otherwise if on ground they get 4 runs. If they get out they lose 6 runs but carry on until out of feeds.

Fielders must stay in boundary to try to stop the ball going over it for runs.

Front foot batting

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