Divide playing group into teams of three, each with a set of plastic kik cricket stumps. Target cone approx 20 yards away. On coaches signal ("Tīmata") player 1 removes a single stump from the stump set tyakes it to cone, runs back a tages player 2, who takes next stump out, tages player 3, and so on until all pieces of the stump set are at the target cone. Next plaer tagged runs out and outs one stump in the base, ruuns back tags pnext player who puts in 2ns stump, and so on until stump set is fully assembled at target cone. Once fully assembled team sits down, frst team sitting wins.
Progression, team take turns running out to retrieve a single stump, and base. Once all pieces are back, player must run around target cone, and back before putting a stump back in the stump base. First team with stumps assembled back at "home base" wins.
This warm up is preparation for stump target throwing game
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