Cricket: Use of Feet - Straight Drive

To improve your players' basic this high-intensity Twenty20 skills sessions focuses on all their core game skills!

Don't get bogged down against the slower stuff, get on top of the bowler with technique and nous.

Perfect the front-foot drive. Use the most stylish shot in the game to get on top of the bowler and force their lengths back; PLUS, get your fielders snaffling every ball that is hit at them with this all-round session.

Dip your head and shoulder more than for the off or straight drive and let the ball come through.

Open your leading shoulder to point straight/ mid on, so that your hip opens slightly, allowing the bat to swing through.

Take a short stride towards the ball, stand tall on the balls of your feet and point the toe of front foot directly up the wicket.

Plant foot down the line of leg stump - no wider.

Stand tall, get up onto your toes with the weight on your front foot and head forwards, directly above body - eyes level.

As the bat swings through the line of the ball, work hard to maintain the following: A dominant top hand, relaxed fingers and thumb bottom hand grip, diamond shape with arms, high hands, hands forward of bat face on impact.

1. Approach the ball at speed and as you get into line with the ball, twist your upper body, leading with the shoulder furthest from the ball.
2. Bend both knees, so that the knee of the leg nearest to the ball touches the ground, but it is also next to the back of the heel of the other leg.
3. With fingers down and head forward, pick up the ball and then stand back up ready to deliver an overarm throw.

Create a V-Shaped area out in front of the batter.

Working in groups of 6 players take it in turns to bowl, field and bat.

The batsman aims to strike the ball beyond the fielders using a front foot drive. The fielders must prevent the ball from getting past them.

Every time the batsman gets the ball beyond the fielders, within the coned are, they score a point.

Split the group into 2 equal groups.

1 team are the batters and the other side are the fielders.

Each player on the batting team has 3 attempts to strike either a ball off a T or a dropped ball between the cones.

The fielding team stand between the cones and the wall/  boundary. They have to gather the ball and throw it to their wicket keeper who returns the ball to the batter.

Batters can be caught or run out.