Rounders: Reflex Catching

Help your fielders to react quicker and catch some of the tougher balls that are hit/thrown in their direction with this week's fielding skills session!

Setup: 4 players stand in a diamond with 3 balls. A 5th player stands in the middle.

To start the drill 1 of the outside players throw their ball to the player in the middle who has to return the ball the player who did not have a ball before the ball was thrown.

The middle player then rotates to receive the next ball and the drill continues in this way.

After the first player has thrown the ball to the player next to them, they have to run all the way around to try and get back to their starting position before the ball does.

Set Up:

1 feeder, 1 worker, 1 rounders ball, cones.

The feeder and worker stand opposite each other 4 metres apart.

The Drill:

Players work in twos and start with the working player facing away from the feeder.

When the feeder calls the name of the worker they should turn quickly and catch the ball.

Once caught they throw the ball back to the feeder and repeat.

Player 2 throws the ball straight-up and player 1 has to run in and catch it before returning the ball back to player 2.

Player 1 continues to run around the cone before running back to receive another high feed from player 2.

On catching the ball player 1 takes up 2s original position before the next person in the queue starts.