Rounders: Batting Technique

The days of scratching practice drills and plays on scraps of paper...
Andrew

DESCRIPTION

Players work in fours with one batter, one bowler and two fielders.

The basic structure of this drill is that the ball is bowled to the batter who has to try and hit the ball.

To improve hand-eye coordination there are 3 stages to this drill.

Firstly the batting player should hit the ball with their hand (or yellow hand CP where available), then with a paddle bat and lastly a rounders bat.

COACHING POINTS

Stage one: Stepping into the bowled ball and then using their hand to gently bat the ball to one of the fielding players.

Stage two: Repeat using a small tennis racket or paddle bat.

Stage three: Repeat using a rounders bat.

The batter should stand side ways on, with the bat back ready to swing at the ball.

Players' weight should be on their back foot, ready to transfer onto their front foot when they swing at the ball.

As players step they should remember to follow through.

READ MORE
READ LESS
OFTEN USED WITH...
923634
3762

SIGN UP NOW FOR FREE

  • search our library of 100+ rounders drills
  • create professional rounders coaching plans
  • or access our tried and tested rounders plans
MORE Batting DRILLS
/drills/ Rounders/ Batting /categoryDrills_21.jsp

JOIN SPORTPLAN FOR FREE

  • search our library of 100+ rounders drills
  • create your own professional coaching plans
  • or access our tried and tested plans

Sportplan App

Give it a try - it's better in the app

YOUR SESSION IS STARTING SOON... Join the growing community of rounders coaches plus 100+ drills and pro tools to make coaching easy.
LET'S DO IT