Cricket: Throw and catch up and down

Fun skills development session - working on improving your young cricketers catching and throwing consistency!

Players work in pairs with 1 ball.

They start very close together and with every successful throw and catch the thrower can take a step back increasing the distance between the players.

2 teams work with 1 ball.

Split the area into 3 zones: The middle zone is a no-go zone (you can choose to put one player in this area).

There is team in each side of the no-go zone.

The aim of the game is to throw the ball over the player in the middle (can be the coach) to try and land the ball in the opposition's zone to score a point.

The opposition tries to catch the ball to prevent the other team from scoring a point.

The first team to land 10 balls wins.

The player at the front of the 2 players runs to the cone with the ball picks up the ball and then places it on the other cone.

They then continue to run to the other side to tag the waiting player.

Once tagged the next player runs to the middle and moves the ball back to the first cone and run to the other side.

The drill continues in this way.

Players take it in turns to take a catch at each distance, between the two cones (increase/decrease distance in relation to your players' age).

The catching player must work from the starting cone and work their way inwards.

Once a successful cacth is taken, the player drops the ball and proceeds forward to take the next one.