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Rounders: Stop the ball - Cover Fielding

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Two cones are placed left and right in front of the feeder.

Ball is fed into play.

The closest player creates a wall to stop the ball and the other play backs up the first player.

The ball is then thrown to the post and the ball thrower follows the ball to the post.

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Fielding and throw to post:

Ball injected to backstop who catches the ball and throws it to first base and follows the ball to first base. The back stop player is then replaced by the next player queuing in the line.

Player at first base collects ball and puts it into the machine before joining the backstop line of players.

Bowling Machine

Fielding Rotation - Catch and Follow:

One player is fielding deep.

The ball is fed to them to catch and then throw to post.

They player who caught the ball follows the ball to the post and the player on the post runs the ball into the feeder.

Players rotate.

Throwing & Catching

Batting - five player rotation:

One player as backstop, one on each of the first 3 posts and one as batter.

The batter gets fed the ball until they hit it. When they do hit it the run to first post and everyone else runs onto the next post.

They player who has run from 3rd to forth is now in bat.

Bowling Machine

team gather and return drill:

1 feeder in the batting square with 1 ball.

Rest of the players in a line in the field.

The feeder feeds different kinds of ball into the field for the front player of the line to collect and return before going to the back of the line to wait for their next turn

Ground Fielding

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