Cricket Coaching

Today we had some coaching tips from Canterbury Cricket. They came out to teach us how to play cricket. We had to warm up our bodies first then we were shown how to catch and hit a ball. We enjoyed going out and learning some cricket skills.
We decided that we might get some of the cricket gear our from the Sport Shed and play games at lunch times.

Black Hat Thinking
It was hard to catch the ball when it went up high.
The bat was quite big to use.
It was hard to run fast with the bat.

White Hat Thinking
We went out on the field and did some running.
We had to throw the ball up in the air.
We had to hit the ball off the cones.
There were two coaches.
We had to warm up.
We had to get the balls and put them on the cones.

Have a look at us in action. There are some helpful tips on how to catch a ball and hit a ball with a cricket bat.