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Core Junior Skills - Catching and Throwing

This week's session has been designed to introduce controlled throwing and catching to your younger players who are still learning and developing their core cricketing skills. Read on to learn more!

One of the major challenges facing youth coaches is keeping your youngsters engaged throughout - you might have lots of knowledge to impart on your players but if they're not paying attention it's going to fall on deaf ears!

To ensure your youngsters stay switched on throughout this core skills session we open with a fast, skills development warm up. Once your players have been initiated into the session we then move onto a series of games which will challenge your players' competitive side whilst also working on their catching and throwing consistency.

As a final treat (as long as everyone's worked hard) we finish with a fun final game of Kwik Cricket (also known as Kanga cricket in Australia). So jump to it and work on your players' core skills today!

Ice Breaker Ground Fielding Refresher Session! Junior Fielding

This week we work on the fielding basics, including your players' long barrier technique, designed to get everyone working and having fun! Read on to learn more!

To make sure no player is left behind we start with a pairs target throwing drill. The benefit of starting small like this is that it's a great ice-breaker and gets everyone involved. Once everybody is warmed up and awake we then move towards progressively larger group drills, building up to the final fun Ground Fielding Game!

Performing without pressure is easy though, that's why the games in this session are designed to be played at a high intensity! The speed and pace of these drills will test your players and see how they perform under game pressure.

Get all your players involved and refresh your players' ground fielding skills with this session today!