Group
KS1
Date
March 17, 2023
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Activity 1
Longball
Coach
Pete Alexander
Time
20 Minutes
Skills:
Matchplay, Fun Game
This is a well known, simple yet fun version of Cricket.
Use a Dodgeball to aid the batters and fielders being able to hit and catch the ball. It means you can also use the ball to strike the batter in order to run them out which is lots of fun.
The batter bats in a small square at one end. They must hit the ball otherwise they have to go to the jail box!
When they've hit it, they're trying to run to the small box at the other end of the hall to make one point.
If they get to that box, they can choose to gamble that point and try for three points by running back to the starting square. If they get run out on the way back, they score zero.
Fielders can catch batters out and they can run batters out by throwing the ball at the batter when they are between squares.
When a batter is out they go to jail.
Offer batters a chance to get out of jail if one of their batters hit the ball into a particular target such as the back wall or a goal.
Innings ends when everyone is in jail and there is nobody left to bat
Activity 2
Tri-Cricket
Coach
Pete Alexander
Time
30 minutes
Skills:
Matchplay, Fun Game
This game was invented by us in 2015 as we wanted a fun version of cricket that you could play with a class of 30 children, inside a small school hall when it’s raining outside.
We split the class into 3 teams. 2 teams bat and the other fields and after each innings they rotate - so will bat twice and field once.
The bowlers (coaches) bowl 3 consecutive balls at each batter - 6 balls in total between the two batters - that then means the fielding team have 6 balls to collect. This means most fielders get a ball on every turn. We had found that generally, if using just one ball, the fastest most alert fielder gets the ball all the time and the batters that struggle to hit the ball only get a couple of goes at hitting the ball during a lesson. Meaning lots of children find cricket boring.
This game brings everyone into the game. It increases your number of hits during a lesson by 6x compared to continuous cricket and gives you a 6 in 10 chance of getting a ball when fielding compared to a 1 in 10 chance (if that).
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