Rounders: Moving sideways to retrieve the ball

No more butterfingers! Don't leave it to chance - get your players to cover their team-mate's back and avoid gifting the other team easy runs through fielding fumbles!

1) runs out and picks up the stationary ball and throws over top to 2). 2) rolls the ball back out to 1), 1) gathers with barrier and replaces it and joins the back of the queue. When 1) tags 2), 2) then goes, 3) takes up position by post. This can be done in a race against another group.

Two players per team, stood about 4-5 metres apart between two cones (the goal).

Both teams must try to protect their goals by stopping the opposition from throwing the ball through their goal.

Using only underarm throws players must try and score in their opponent's goal.

A goal is awarded every time their opponent either drops the ball or fails to prevent it passing between their cones.

Pick up on turn and throw to run out station
Batter (carrying bat) (1) calls YES and tries to run 2 lengths whilst fielder (1) runs out to stationary ball, picks it up and throws it to the player at the post , thus trying to run out B(1). Player at post throws ball back to F(1) who replaces ball on the ground for next fielder.

1 replaces the fielder by the post

Set Up:

1 feeder, 1 worker, 6 rounders balls, cones, mat.

The Drill:

Players work in twos and start with the feeder kneeling on the mat facing the 6 balls in front of them.

The worker is 3 metres away to the side of mat.

The feeder feeds the 6 balls out of the side of their hand for the worker to catch and then drop as many as possible.