- 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
Two sets of stumps or cones 12 m apart, a bat, a tee.
Three minutes to get warm.
Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.
- Stand at the crease with the bat. Call "yes!" loudly and run hard to the other end.
- Reach the bat out and slide it along the ground over the line.
- Turn and run back for a second run, sliding the bat over the line again.
Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.
- Hit the ball off the tee.
- Call "yes" and run hard to the other end.
- Slide the bat over the line.
- Turn and come back for two.
How much: 5 runs, 3 rounds
Bat over the line
Run-out race
The rules
On "yes" the batter runs two while a fielder fetches a ball from a tee and throws it to the keeper.
- Put a ball on a tee 10 m to the side of the pitch
- The batter hits off the batting tee and calls "yes"
- The batter runs two; the fielder runs to the side tee, picks up that ball and throws it to the keeper at the batter's starting end
- If the bat is over the line before the keeper knocks the stumps with the ball in hand, the batter is safe
Fair play: A grown-up fielder walks to the tee.
- Points
- The batter scores 2 runs for each safe two; the fielder and keeper score 1 point for each run-out.
- Fouls
- a run with the bat not grounded over the line does not count; running without calling: no runs; a throw at the batter gives the batter 2 extra runs
- Win
- The most runs after everyone has batted 5 times.
- 4
- 6
- 8
5 runs in a row, bat grounded each time.
End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.
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