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At the Fitzroy cricket club we are always happy to talk cricket, and anything cricket related, and we are always happy to share what we have learnt, so below are just a couple of training drills you may wish to try one day.
TRAINING DRILLS
Batting Drill
Front foot drill
This drill can be set up indoors or outdoors. Depending on size of area and numbers, two or three playing areas can be set up. There is one batter, wicketkeeper and bowler (can just do throw downs) with one, two or three fielders.
The aim of the drill is for the batter to strike the ball between two cones on either side of the pitch (which can be moved to encourage a range of shots). This will practice stepping forward to play shots on the off-side and leg-side. After every six balls the players rotate so that each one gets to bat.
To make it interesting, players can score points for each sucessful shot through the cones, highest score wins.
To increase difficulty the cones can be moved further back and closer together making the target more difficult to achieve.
Bowling Drill
Target Area Drill
set a target length either by chalk line, or by use of markers on the
edge of the wicket. This should be a length which provokes indecision in the batsman as to whether to play forward or back. Player scores a point every time ball lands in this area. Count points and set targets of points per number of deliveries.
You can increase the dificulty by minimising the size of the target area either width or length.
Feilding Drill
Shy/Backing up Drill
Set up using a set of stumps at one end, a single stump at the other, then have a keeper at the set of stumps and two equal lines of players in the positions shown.
The keeper/coach rolls the ball out to one side and is picked up by the first player in line and shy'd at the stump. the first player in the other line of players move around to field the 'over throw' and then return to the keeper.
key points to note;
- it is important to make sure players run between positions (add's to pace of drill)
- other players in the respective lines should 'back up' the player in front of them, just as they would need to in a game
- the throw to the keeper should be just above the stumps
- if a player misses the keeper on the return throw, make them go and get it :)
The drill can either be ended by a time limit or number of times the single stump is hit