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Ground Fielding Drills

Fielding Catch Drill

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Fielding catch drill Ground Fielding Two lines of players facing each other. Player 1 rolls the ball along the ground for player 2 to run an...

Fielding

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Fielding Ground Fielding Aim - to encourage lateral movement Work in threes. Start with a ball on every cone. The worker starts at the bucke...

Backing Up The Post

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Backing up the post Ground Fielding Players work in groups of four. With one feeder and one fielder stood on a post, with another two player...

Run Fetch And Throw

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders run fetch and throw Ground Fielding This is a hit throw and follow exercise. One player by each post and one deep fielder. The rest of the p...

Beat The Ball

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Beat the ball Ground Fielding For this practice you need 8 players per group. Set out 4 cone in a square about 5 metres apart. Set out 2 fla...

4 Ball Rounders

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders 4 ball rounders Ground Fielding 1 player hits 4 balls anywhere into the field. Once the batter has hit all the balls they run around all 4 p...

Post Play

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Post Play Ground Fielding Set up: 6 players, rounders balls, posts. The drill: The bowler bowls the ball to the batter who catches the ball,...

Ground Fielding

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Ground Fielding Ground Fielding Long barrier Team A must roll the ball past team B to score a point (goal) and vice versa. catching, fieldin...

Ground Fielding

category: Ground-Fielding

Rounders Ground Fielding Ground Fielding Batter 2 calls YES hit or run, then starts to run on the call. Fielder 1 feeds from an angle, fielder 2 runs...

5 V 5 Festival

category: Conditioned-games

Set Up:

2 teams of 5. The fielding team consists of: bowler, backstop, 2nd post, 3 fielders (1 on 2nd post...

Advanced Catch Ball Rotation

category: Throwing-Catching

The 2nd player in the line throws a high ball over the head of the 1st player, for them to run onto and catch close to the bowling square.

O...

Batting - Four Player Rotation

category: Batting

One player is batter, one as back-stop, one as first base and other deep fielding.

The bowler feeds the ball to the batter.

The batte...

Batting - Four Player Rotation

category: Bowling-Machine

One player is batter, one as back-stop, one as first base and other deep fielding.

The bowler feeds the ball to the batter.

The batte...

Batting Technique

category: Batting

Players work in fours with one batter, one bowler and two fielders.

The basic structure of this drill is that the ball is bowled to the batt...

Beat The Call

category: Conditioned-games

Split your group into two teams: A throwing team and a fielding team.

The fielders have to put one player by each post and the rest in the f...

Bobble Feed Catch

category: Bowling-Machine

One player on post and another fielding deep on each shoulder.

The ball is fed in with a bounce (objects are on the floor to create and rand...

Bobble Feed Catch

category: Throwing-Catching

One player on post and another fielding deep on each shoulder.

The ball is fed in with a bounce (objects are on the floor to create and rand...

Diamond Rounders

category: Conditioned-games

Set up:

4 posts are set up in the shape of a diamond. Each post being 9 metres from the centre of the diamond.

You nee...

Drill For Fielding First Post

category: Ground-Fielding

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 wi...

Fielding And Throw To Post

category: Bowling-Machine

Ball injected to backstop who catches the ball and throws it to first base and follows the ball to first base. The back stop player is then replac...

Fielding Rotation - Catch And Follow

category: Bowling-Machine

One player is fielding deep.

The ball is fed to them to catch and then throw to post.

They player who caught the ball follows the bal...

Fielding Rotation - Catch And Follow

category: Throwing-Catching

One player is fielding deep.

The ball is fed to them to catch and then throw to post.

They player who caught the ball follows the bal...

Fielding

category: Throwing-Catching

Catching and throwing the ball on while standing on a rocker board.

Hitting The Gaps

category: Throwing-Catching

Set up on a full sized rounders pitch or smaller if U10's or below.

2 teams of 5 fielding v 5 batting (no bats required)

The aim of the...

Race Against The Team

category: Conditioned-games

Fielding team has 1 player by each post and back stop with one fielder standing in the field beyond the 1st post. ( you can vary each time)

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Rounders Hockey - Roll The Ball

category: Conditioned-games

Set up:

Split players into two teams (no more than 5v5 - set up several mini-games if necessary). Pitch marked out with 2 g...

Run Around

category: Throwing-Catching

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 ...

Short Catching Relay

category: Ground-Fielding

1) rolls ball out a short distance. 2) runs in, underarm flicks to 1) who catches ball. 1) puts ball down, runs back and tags 3) then 2) rolls ball ou...

Stop The Ball - Cover Fielding

category: Bowling-Machine

Two cones are placed left and right in front of the feeder.

Ball is fed into play.

The closest player creates a wall to stop the ball...

Stop The Ball - Cover Fielding

category: Ground-Fielding

Two cones are placed left and right in front of the feeder.

Ball is fed into play.

The closest player creates a wall to stop the ball...

Team Scatterball

category: Batting

Divide players into two teams, one fielding and one batting.

The fielding team bowls 4 consecutive balls to a better. Once the batter has hi...

Team Scatterball

category: Ground-Fielding

Divide players into two teams, one fielding and one batting.

The fielding team bowls 4 consecutive balls to a better. Once the batter has hi...

Throwing Rounders

category: Conditioned-games

Split your players into two teams. The fielding side will need a bowler, a back stop and a player on first base. The rest of the fielders can stand...

Up 'N' Over - Reaction Fielding

category: Throwing-Catching

Players work in pairs, with a ball between two, both facing the same direction.

The player at the back must throw a looping ball over their p...

Rounders: ground fielding - circle reactions game

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Rounders drills: sportplan rounders

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Improving Throwing - Speed Fielding

Help your players throw over distance, work on their underarm bowling technique and consistently and confidently catch with both hands!

Bowling/Post Play - Fielding Focus Session

There's more to rounders than just batting. Get your players enthused about bowling and fielding around the posts in this action packed session.

Focus On Specialist Fielding Positions - Back Stop

Develop a team that loves fielding! Produce the sharpest backstop around to really lump the pressure on the batter when they?re struggling to make fir...

Developing Dynamic Fielders

Change your players preconceptions and get them excited about fielding with this week's fast paced session - developing catching, hand-eye coordinatio...

Advanced Catching - Bobblers and High Balls

Can your players catch high balls and difficult bobblers? To improve their hand-eye coordination this week we give them some extra catching practice!

Speed play - Collect, Turn and Throw!

This week we're upping the speed of play - challenging your fielders to chase the ball down and return it to the posts as quickly as possible!

Backing up in the field - Avoid Fielding fumbles!

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 ...

Catching consistency! Skills and Games

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 sessio...

Teaching Players to deal with Bobblers and Bouncers

The quicker players gather the ball, the faster they can get the opposition out! Teach players to deal with awkward bouncers and fast-rolling balls in...

Overarm Throwing - Distance and Accuracy Session!

Put more power in your throws! From warm up to final game (with a twist) this session aims to get your players throwing and fielding with greater accu...

What happens if the ball is thrown against a base to get a runner out?

Does batter have to stop running if another fielder steps into fielding box with ball?

What score do I receive?

Fielding Soccer

Skill

The skill will be dodgeball. This relates to the game based activity because of fielding (catching to get the opposition out. Using soft balls the tea...

Danish Longball game.

Firstly, the children will be placed into 2 teams which will be balanced according to age to ensure equal opportunities. One team will be batting and ...

Rapid Fire with T Ball Stands

Batter hits 3 balls of the 3 T Ball stands and then runs with the bat, touching each base pole as they run past. If they make it home it counts as 1 R...

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warm up for five minutes- jog around the pitch twice; stretches- arm swings, shoulder circles, lunges.skill related exercise: everyone will be split i...

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Sit players down in a group once a pitch has been set up and ask if they know any rules already and if so what are they.If they don't know all the...

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Get into pairs and start off throwing at short distances and progress into throwing it further across the pitch.Practicing making sure it's an acc...

Run the Bases Game

This game is a striking/fielding and continuous running game. This game also involves the students thinking about strategy whilst playing.1. Field is ...

Game

Rounders is a game played between two teams and the aim of the game is to score the most Rounders.One team bats while the other team fields and bowls....