Rounders: Hit and Run

Teach your athletes to bat with confidence - Turning their body to meet the ball, aiming for pockets of space and following through on their shots!

Set up 3 small teams and 3 hoops. The hoops should be placed an equal distance apart with several balls in each (dependant on number of players).

The aim of this game is to get rid of all the balls in your hoop one by one by moving them to another team's hoop.

Players must carry the ball and place it inside the other team's hoop (no throwing or rolling the ball).

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.

In this game the batter tries to score as many rounders as they can by hitting the ball through the area so it either flies over or rolls through the area out the end or either side.

When the ball is caught the catching fielder becomes the bowler the bowler becomes the batter and the batter becomes a fielder

Set up in 2's with 1 bat and a ball.

The aim here is to keep the ball up in the air by hitting it lightly with the bat. If the ball hits the ground it becomes your partner's turn.