Cricket: Off Spin

Bowling spin is a fine art. Get it right and you?ll be the fear of every batsman walking out to the middle!

** AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON **

• Drill can work with a mininum of 3 players and 1 feeder.
• Can add more pairs sharing catches if you have more numbers.
• Coach/feeder will use the ramp to send 4 consecutive catches to a player opposite.
• Inbetween that, players will pair up and swap catches whilst the coach is sending the 4 catches.
• Players rotate once the 4 catches have been taken.

Pairs stand 3 to 4 metres apart between a pair of cones (their goal).

By throwing the ball underarm, below waist height, players must try to get the ball through their opponent's cones.

Players score a point every time their opponent either drops the ball or fails to prevent it passing between their cones.

The wicket keeper feeds the ball straight out, along the ground, to the fielders who take it in turns to retrieve the ball.

Player's who run from the wicket-keeper's left should throw the ball back to the keeper with their left-hand and those from the right throw with their right-hand.

For this drill you need a wicket-keeper and a queue of bowlers at both ends of the wicket.

The first player takes their run up and bowls an off spin ball on one side of the cones down the middle towards the opposite stumps. Ideally the spin generated should make the ball cross over the line of cones and bounce up for the wicket-keeper to take.

Once the bowler has bowled they continue their run to the back of the queue on the other side and the drill repeats with the bowler at the other end.