- Check the space and the kit.
- Get your child's attention first.
- Show it from two sides.
- Say one thing only.
- End on one that works.
Put the phone down where you can see it. Tap Next with your thumb, or use the arrow keys.
Is the space marked?
- The stumps (bucket, bottle or a set of stumps)
- The batting crease 1 m in front
- The bowling mark
- Two cones as a "gate" a bat's width in front of the stumps
A net and a plan for the session.
Three minutes to get warm.
Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.
- Write the session's one task, such as "drive 10 balls into the off-side gap".
- Set the target so it works 6 to 8 times in 10.
- After 10 balls, count the successes: over 8, make it harder (a smaller gap, a faster feed); under 5, make it easier.
Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.
- Say the plan aloud.
- A set of 10 balls on one task.
- Count the successes.
- Change one thing (distance, target size) when it passes 8 in 10.
How much: sets of 10 balls
Say the plan, then do it
Beat last week
The rules
A fixed test set of 20 balls, the same every week; beat last week's count.
- Choose one test task and keep it exactly the same every week: the same distance, the same target
- 20 balls
- Count the successes and write them down
Fair play: The player competes only with their own record.
- Points
- 1 point for each success out of 20.
- Fouls
- No point: changing the task in the middle of the set; free hitting instead of the task
- Win
- Beat last week's count.
- 10
- 13
- 16
The athlete records success rate and changes a constraint when it passes 80 per cent.
End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.
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