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How can i introduce cricket batting and bowling techniques?

How can i introduce cricket batting and bowling techniques to juniors and beginners aged 6-9?? Whilst still making it fun so that they enjoy it. Too many of the kids I teach still throw when they bowl and play across the line when they bat!

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Hi there, just a quick answer, as far as batting goes, let them hit ball of a high cone, and also make them play off side games, if they hit legside, they are out, and as we all know, they want to bat for a long time, reward them when they play good offside shots by possibly taking little videos on your phone/camara and show them how they look like kallis or ab de villiers when they played that shot, works for me! cheers david

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