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Rounders: Diamond Rounders

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Set up:

4 posts are set up in the shape of a diamond. Each post being 9 metres from the centre of the diamond.

You need 3 teams of 4, 4 bats and 1 ball.

Batting team each stand at a post. The other 2 teams take the bowler and fielding roles.

The Drill:

The bowler decides who to bowl to first, and the remaining 3 batters stand behind the post and make contact with it.

The bowler bowls the ball for the batter to hit. The fielders can field the ball into any post to get any of the batters out.

If a batter is out then their team loses 4 points. 1 point is scored for every post a batter reaches.

Each team of 4 faces 6 good balls and the score is added up. After each ball the bowler can decide which batter to bowl to (it can be any of the 4 batters). The fielding team must react and move position, depending on which batter the bowler is bowling to.

After 6 good balls the next team goes into bat.

COACHING POINTS

Batters should look to hit into spaces and communicate with each other when running between the posts.

Fielders should react to where the bowler bowls and move position accordingly, as well as backing each other up, and ensure that the posts are covered.

Additional Rules:

A batter cannot be stumped out on the post being bowled to if they miss the ball.

Batters run anti clockwise as they would in a match.

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1 player batting against 4 fielders. Game starts by the bowler bowling a good bowl towards the batter who hits the ball into the direstion of the 2 fielders.

Rounders are scored if the batter runs around the bowler and back or if the batter hits the ball in between the 2 cones (3 and 4) by the 2 fielders on the left.

Fielders can score a point by touchjing cone 1 with the ball before the batter gets back having run round the bowler.

Conditioned games

Beat the ball:

Split the group into teams of 5. One team throwing the ball around posts.

One team running around the posts.

The ball starts by the batting square and has to be thrown to post one then 2 then 3 then 4 then back to the batting square.

The running team have to run and tag.

The first player in the batting square has to run to tag 1st post player this player has to run to release the player at 2nd post etc until the player on the forth post is tagged and runs back to the batting square.

Start again when ball and players are back in position again.

Best of 5 runs.

Conditioned games

5 v 5 Festival:

Set Up:

2 teams of 5. The fielding team consists of: bowler, backstop, 2nd post, 3 fielders (1 on 2nd post). The batting box 6 metres away from the bowling box.

Pitch set out with posts or cones, spaced out accordingly.

The Game:

Each innings lasts for 15 good balls. After 5 good balls the fielders rotate.

Conditioned games

Circle Ball:

1 catcher, 5 attackers, and 3 defenders. Cones, tennis ball or rounders ball.

There are always more attackers than defenders.

Catcher starts in the inner circle and is on the same team as the attackers. The 3 defenders are in the next ring, and the rest of the attackers are in the outer ring.

The attackers aim to get the ball to the catcher, and for the defenders to try and intercept.

Attackers may pass the ball around the outside of the circle to each other to create space.

Teams can move but must stay in their own circle. They are not allowed in anyones else's.

Underarm throwing only.

Points System: Defenders 1 point for a touch, and 5 points for a catch. Attackers get 1 point every time the catcher receives the ball.

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