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Throwing Drills 

Four Stations – Four Jobs

Skills: Pick-up and throw, backing up, underarm flick, short catch.

Set-Up: You need fi ve markers and a set of stumps. Set them up (see diagram) 
with a central line of four markers, one of which is the stumps. The other two 
markers are about 15m away from the set of stumps.

Activity: The coach/Keeper starts on the marker nearest the stumps. One player 
is on marker number 2 (see diagram) and one player is on marker 4 (see diagram). 
The rest of the players are split in half with one queue of players behind each of 
the remaining markers, 1 and 3. Each of the markers has a different skill to perform, 
which results in everyone being involved in a great fun fi elding drill; (sounds 
complicated but is easy once you get going!)



Station 1: Coach/keeper (WK) rolls ball out, player attacks, picks-up and throws 
.................at the stumps.

Station 2: After throwing at the stumps, player runs on to an underarm flick fed 
.................by player. Players swap and player on station 2 runs onto back of 
.................queue at station 3.

Station 3: Player moves into appropriate position to back up the throw at stumps 
.................from station 1, then throws back to the keeper before moving onto 
.................station 4.

Station 4: Player on station 4 feeds an underarm catch to oncoming player. 
.................Players swap, player from station 4 runs to back of queue at station 1.

Variations

2 and 4: You can be a bit inventive on stations 2 and 4, depending on what you 
..............want your players to practice; one-handed pick-up, two-handed pick-up, 
..............wronghanded pick-up, low catch, head-high catch, high catch, one-handed
..............catch etc. are just a few of the options.

Different Balls: Try having different balls on stations 2 and 4, maybe a golf ball, or 
...........................a tennis ball, or even a rugby ball! It will give a different challenge 
...........................for the players to catch the different balls which will help general 
...........................hand-eye co-ordination.



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