This plan is about refreshing all the skills learnt during practice. Using a game format it brings together the batting, fielding and bowling disciplines of cricket.
Sometimes players, especially younger ones, find it hard to understand how training drills are transferred to the cricket pitch. This week's plan is a way of providing that context by showing players how practising correct technique in batting, bowling and fielding can immediately improve their game.
What's in the plan?
These drills aim to get your players incorporating newly developed skills in the basics of cricket including how to swap strike, how to field under pressure and bowling to your set field.
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