Front foot/Cover drive- Players pair up. One will be batting one will be fielding, the ball is placed on the batting cone with the batsman standing over the ball in ready stance, when the coach says start the batter will step forward with front foot next to the cone and perform a straight drive along the ground. Not hitting the ball to hard but hard enough to reach his partner who is going to be fielding the ball and then rolling it back to the batter. this is performed multiple times to practice the technique, when the coach says swap the partners will change roll and now one will become the batter and the other the fielder.
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