Year 3-8 - Lesson 2 - Bowling

By Smart Coach
Part of Smart Coach - Cricket
Understanding how to hold the ball when bowling, while also using the correct technique for the bowling action.

Notes

What are the two main types of bowling action?

How do we hold the ball when bowling?

Where does our non-bowling arm point?

What body part does our bowling arm brush past before letting go of the ball?

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Warm Up

Bowling Relays

Split class into groups of 4-5.  Each team will have one person that starts behind the stumps (wicketkeeper) and the rest of the team will be behind a cone that is 10 yards away from the stumps with a ball each, from where they will bowl from. When the coach starts the bowling relays one person at a time from the bowling line will attempt to bowl their ball at the stumps, immediately after bowling they will run to take up the position of the wicketkeeper behind the stumps,  while the first wicketkeeper will collect the ball that was bowled and join the bowling line. If the ball hits the stumps with more than 1 bounce or 0 bonces the team will be arwarded 1 point, if the ball hits the stumps after only 1 bounce the team will be awarded 2 points. The team with the most points at the end of the relay wins. 

Modifications

Put the stumps further away from bowling line. Have coloured spots in front of the stumps to aim for to get more points. use rubber cricket balls instead of tennis balls.

Special Needs Modifications

Underarm bowling. Allowed unlimited amount of bounces before hitting the stumps. move the stumps closer.

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Activities

Scoring Zones - Bowling

The class is divided into groups of 4 with approximately 6 students in each depending on class numbers and will also have 5 tennis balls. One student will be a batter, One person will be bowler and one person will be wicketkeeper. while the rest will be positioned in the designated/coned area as fielders. The playing area will be divded into zones with the use of cones acting as boundaries for each fielder to be positioned in. You can create as many zones as you like but 3 would be optimal. The closest zone to the batter would be worth 1 point, the next zone and the furtherest away would be worth 3. If the batter hits one of the tennis balls into zone 3 which is worth 3 points, the fielder will place the ball on the ground after retrieving it and leave it there. Once all 5 tennis balls have been hit, everyone will add up the points scored based on which zones the tennis balls have been hit into. Take all 5 tennis balls back to the bowler and rotate positions. If bowlers hits the stumps this will deduct 3 points off the batters total each time and 1 point will be deducted if a fielder catches the ball without a bounce.

 

NOTE: If bowler not confident using correct bowling action, can use underarm bowling. 


Competition: once everyone has had a turn at batting, during the second round, players in each zone will become defenders - their job will be to stop tennis balls travelling past them into a zone worth more points.

Modifications

Depending on the age/year group the zones can be spaced far apart making it harder to hit to the zones that are worth more points. Once everyone has had a turn at batting, during second round the players in each zone will become defenders - their job will be to stop tennis balls travelling past them into a zone worth more points.

Special Needs Modifications

Can use a tennis racquet to hit the ball with. Change the object the player is hitting - spike ball, Ki-O-Rahi Ball. Batter could essentially through the ball as an alternative.

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