Cricket
[ Scheme of work | Sports News ]
The visit of the Somerset and Sri Lankan cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya to Blundell's Prep after Somerset's win over Australia, where he hit 100 runs.
He was promoting the school link Blundell's Prep has made with a school in Sri Lanka
following the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami.
Under 11's first team cricket vs Bramdean
Senior Games: Years 5 and 6 Cricket session
Scheme of work
| Safety |
- Helmets, distances from bat, boxes, and the command stop.
- Amount of bowling at different age groups can do in a week and in a match.
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| Bowling |
- Grip for straight, spin on and off, swing in and out.
- Coil bowling
- One step bowling
- The run up
- Bowling round or over the wicket
- Bowling to a left handed bats man
- Shining the ball
- No ball law and wide law
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| Batting |
- Stance, grip, back swing. Eyes balance, lead with the shoulders to play
strokes.
- Shots the drive, pull, cut, defence, back foot drive, sweep, reverse sweep.
- Taking a guard.
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| Fielding |
- Field placements and names.
- Walking in.
- Ready position.
- Collecting the ball short on handed, and two handed, running after
it on a slow
ball,
running
after it further out and quicker and boundary
collection as the
ball
comes towards.
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| Catching |
- Fingers points up or down not at the ball.
- Bring the ball into the chest.
- Catching a high ball come down from above hand cupped in front or
turned
back
over head.
- Catching a ball between the chest and head.
- Catching a ball lower.
- Slip catching.
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| Wicket keeping |
- K shape movement.
- Distances back from the wicket depending on the bowling speed.
- Stumpings.
- Run outs. Behind the stumps as the ball is thrown.
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| Running between wickets |
- Calls
- Turning
- Watching the ball and fielder.
- Bat carrying
- Running the bat in.
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| Laws and gamesmanship |
- Basic laws of batting and bowling.
- Appealing.
- Not standing ground and when to stand ground.
- Sledging.
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| Captain's roles |
- The toss
- Picking to bat or bowl depending on conditions
- State of the pitch
- Picking an order of bowling and batting
- Tactics in a match.
- Leadership.
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| Nets |
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