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Rounders: Diving Practice

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Divide the main group into smaller groups of 4 and set up as shown. The ball is thrown to the fielders (person in the middle) right or left for them to dive onto the mats. The two players behind the mats are back-up fielders.

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Drill for fielding first post:

This practice is to help the backstop and fielder at 1st post to improve the speed of delivery in trying to get the batter out.

3 players with the ball

1 bowler

1 backstop

1 1st post fielder

The rest of the players line up to to one at the time step into the batting square to dummy hit the ball and try to to beat the ball from the backstop to the 1st post by running as fast as possible to touch 1st post

Ground Fielding

Fielding catch drill:

Two lines of players facing each other.

Player 1 rolls the ball along the ground for player 2 to run and do an underarm flick back to player 1 who catches the ball and puts it down.

Player 2 to join the back of the line.

Player 3 repeats the drill.

Roles swap on achieving 10.

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Decision Making - Long Barrier or Short Pick up:

In 3s or 4s one closer player puts a name on the ball and the other fielder backs up behind.

Player who made the call decides either long barrier or short pick up to get the ball in quickly

Ground Fielding

Fielding:

Aim - to encourage lateral movement Work in threes. Start with a ball on every cone. The worker starts at the bucket (middle) and works laterally to each cone to retrieve the ball and bring it back to the middle. see how many retrieved in 30 seconds. once all the balls are in the middle the next worker can try to take each ball back from the middle and place it by the cones.

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