Rounders: Duck and Catch - Reaction Drill

Your mission, if you wish to accept it, is to improve your players' catching under pressure. Skills covered in this session include catching on the run and throwing accuracy

No more butterfingers! Don't leave it to chance - get your players to cover their team-mate's back and avoid gifting the other team easy runs through fielding fumbles!

This practice is to help the backstop and fielder at 1st post to improve the speed of delivery in trying to get the batter out.

3 players with the ball

1 bowler

1 backstop

1 1st post fielder

The rest of the players line up to to one at the time step into the batting square to dummy hit the ball and try to to beat the ball from the backstop to the 1st post by running as fast as possible to touch 1st post

Two lines of players facing each other.

Player 1 rolls the ball along the ground for player 2 to run and do an underarm flick back to player 1 who catches the ball and puts it down.

Player 2 to join the back of the line.

Player 3 repeats the drill.

Swap roles after 10 successful flick and catches, if the ball gets dropped start counting back at 0.

Roles swap on achieving 10.

Teams of 4 try and throw the ball across a pitch as quickly as possible, not missing any players out.

The first team to throw the ball 10 times across the pitch is the winner.

In groups of 4 with one ball.

One player throws the ball up for the front player in the line to come forward and catch the high ball.

After catching the ball the player throws the ball back to the initial thrower and goes to the back of the line of players catching the ball.