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Re: Cricket with Disabled Children Hi there The session went really well, thank you everyone for all the advice. A lot of the kids were playing cricket for the first time, but the pairs cricket was a big success. The drills all went well, although I may cut down the number of fielding games...

Re: Cricket with Disabled Children No worries, it's going ahead on Saturday so I'll post up something afterwards to say how it went. Really looking forward to it actually, couldn't play cricket last week because I had a virus and now I'm better :)

Re: Cricket with Disabled Children Liz those games are fantastic! Pairs cricket in particular, which we will now be playing on saturday! 200 runs is a tad generous ;) I'll go with 20 :p All the different variations of these kwik cricket games will keep us going for ages :) The great things...

Re: Cricket with Disabled Children Liz that's really helpful, thank you! :) There's plenty of sponge balls at the club if we need them! I'll encourage over-arm throwing, particularly if we have 2 sets of stumps! The club has also said they'll buy a brand new kwik cricket set so we can play...

Re: Cricket with Disabled Children Thank DK! Good luck with your P.E. teaching. Yeah I work with the kids at the Disability Sports Club and they're all awesome! And now I've definitely got some inventive and fun ways of bringing cricket to their saturday morning! Result! Mas -re: the...

Re: Cricket with Disabled Children Mas those are fantastic! Using a football is a great idea. Thanks very much, I will definitely try those, and one or two of the drills from the link that I can adapt. If anyone has any other suggestions, please feel free to post :-)

Cricket with Disabled Children Hi there I'm taking some members from my club down to play some cricket with children at a Disability Sports Club. The children have a lot of different disabilities over a broad age group (five up to mid-teens. They range from able-bodied siblings to some...

Re: Closing my eyes!! Thanks liz that's really helpful :) Next training is on sunday, I'll give it a go!

Re: Closing my eyes!! Thanks. The weird thing though is I have no reason to be afraid of the ball and I didn't use to have this problem of closing my eyes! I'll try building it up from tennis balls though, plenty of time til next season ;)

Closing my eyes!! Hi, first post on the new site! :) I did some basic catching practice today. I havent touched a cricket ball for 3 months as the uni season finishes early, and for some unknown reason I was closing my eyes at the moment of the ball reaching my hands. My catching standard...

Re: Wicket Keeping Chat/Chirps/Calls HELP We played St Barts Medical College the other day. One of our blokes came up with 'this guy cut like a surgeon' :laugh: Kinda relies on your team playing medical students though... :p

Re: Umpiring Thanks for all the advice guys :cool I had a relatively good game, I'd give myself 7/10. I gave my captain out lbw to a ball that I thought was gonna hit leg stump for sure, but in hindsight I should have considered it more important that it was a left-arm seamer bowling over the...

Re: Umpiring Thanks, that's all really helpful :D Yes I think some of my wide decisions were affected a little by lazy/slow/poor batting, and I felt really guilty when a couple of iffy decisions I had probably got wrong and the nxt ball was smacked for four :o It didn't happen often, but the...

Re: Umpiring Update! Hi guys, just to let you know my first match went okay. I feel I got all of the lbw calls spot on (whatever the bowlers say :p) but unfortunately I made some quite atrocious wide calls, I was a little throw by the angle of the right-arm fast bowling across the...

Re: Pet Hates: Rain! :p