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My kids love heading to the nets in school holidays but often don’t have any adults with them to direct what they’re working on.
Does anyone have any advice on what drills they could do at the nets to keep them interested and engaged whilst also improving their skills?
Batting, bowling and catching all need help!
Thanks in advance
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Great question Iain and by your question I’m assuming the kids are about 10 or early teenage years.
It’s a difficult question to answer as its quite generic and there’s so many ideas and drills the kids could be doing to hone their skills.
Most importantly the kids need to be having fun but if you want them to be working on their skills here’s some ideas.
Batting – young kids learning to hit the ball on the ground is so important so they could play a game amongst themselves whereby if a the ball is hit above a certain height of the nets the batter is out. After 5 outs the batters swap over. Hopefully it doesn’t cause too many arguments.
After they all get a turn to bat allow them 10 to 15 balls each where they can play all their attacking shots and enjoy themselves.
Bowling – get the kids to make a spot on the wicket where the ball might land to hit the top of off stump. This will give the kids something to aim at and it is a great habit to get into as the years progress.
Fielding – get the kids to take a stump along to the nets. If they stand about 15 metres on opposite side of the stump they can throw the ball at the stump and the other can back up, field the ball and then it’s their turn to throw the balls at the stump.
Set the challenge for the drill to continue until the kids involved hit the stumps at least 6 times.
I hope this helps and they continue to have fun.
There are loads of resources online and via You Tube etc that the kids can look into but the most important thing for them is to have some fun and enjoy exploring things in an unstructured way ie self directed learning!
