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DESCRIPTION

The position of the back stop can be close or far behind the batter. The positioning helps the batter decide where to bowl.

COACHING POINTS

Hands cupped with fingers pointing upwards, thumbs touching.
Should always try to catch the ball before it bounces.

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Back Stop Stance:

Receiving a ball from the bowler and sending to 1st Post

Skills

Back Stop Reaction Drill:

Set Up:

4 players - bowler, batter, back stop, and 1st post. Rounders balls, post, cones.

The Drill:

Bowler bowls the ball to the batter (batting with a cone). They attemt to tip it through to the back stop to take.

The backstop reacting to the tip off the cone sends the ball to 1st post.

Bowler bowls 6 good balls then the players rotate.

Back Stop

Bowling Technique:

Spinning the ball â Closing the door CP Palm finishes facing down Spinning the ball â Opening the door CP Palm finishes facing up Whole thing use a pendulum action, step into the bowl.

Skills

Beat the ball:

Split the group into teams of 5. One team throwing the ball around posts.

One team running around the posts.

The ball starts by the batting square and has to be thrown to post one then 2 then 3 then 4 then back to the batting square.

The running team have to run and tag.

The first player in the batting square has to run to tag 1st post player this player has to run to release the player at 2nd post etc until the player on the forth post is tagged and runs back to the batting square.

Start again when ball and players are back in position again.

Best of 5 runs.

Conditioned games

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