Good cricket coaching tips games for kids aged 6?

Cricket CoachCoach

James, here are a couple of drills that I use when coaching young children.

Catching

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For this game you need two teams of between 6-10 players on each side. One team tries to see how many catches they can do in a specified time, whist the other team sees how many people they can get to run around the cone and back.

Catching

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For this game you need two teams of between 6-10 players on each side. One team tries to see how many catches they can do in a specified time, whist the other team sees how many people they can get to run around the cone and back.

Cricket CoachCoach

Here is the other. Hope they help.

Kwik Cricket

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Divide players into two teams and then pair up all your players. Each pair should get to bat for two overs each. Each pair starts with 20 runs and can be out if they are bowled, caught, stumped, run out or if you hit your own wicket. Every time a batter is out 5 points are knocked off their total and batters swap places. The winning pair is the one which finishes with the most runs.

Kwik Cricket

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Divide players into two teams and then pair up all your players. Each pair should get to bat for two overs each. Each pair starts with 20 runs and can be out if they are bowled, caught, stumped, run out or if you hit your own wicket. Every time a batter is out 5 points are knocked off their total and batters swap places. The winning pair is the one which finishes with the most runs.

Cricket CoachCoach

It isn't easy! At this age the average attention span is very minimal, the most important thing is don't stress if all the kids arn't cooperating at once. You will need helpers. Teenage helpers are great and you can notice them learning heaps by helping. Keep games/drills basic and use colour coded cones to get kids standing in the right places. It is easy to tell the kids to 'stand on a cone' rather than explain to them where to stand. Don't keep them doing one thing for too long. A whistle helps also. Good luck!

Cricket CoachCoach

A game variation I use to keep everyone involved is to put two lines of cones approx 10M-15M apart at a right angle to the striker's wicket behind the wicketkeeper. One batsman is on strike and faces a number of underarm throws from the coach (say 4 or 5) before the next batsman comes in. The rest of the batting team stand behind one set of cones and the fielding team take up positions as normal. If the batsman hits the ball and thinks he can run he has to shout 'run' to his team mates. ALL of them then have to run to the other cones before the fielding team returns the ball to the end the batsmen is running to. If the batting team are successful they get one run per person in their team. If the fielders get the batsmen run out then the batting team lose 5 runs. If the batsmen completes the run but all the other batters are not at the other set of cones before the ball is returned to the coach or wicketkeeper then no run is scored.

Dependent on the group I may only allow run outs or catches and players will bat for all of their balls even if they are bowled (or could lose 5 runs of their team total). Great for keeping everyone interested in the game, parents love to watch the chaos of all the batsmen running and fantastic for teaching maths as well !!