Cricket the main sport this week at EFSC

A slightly quieter week this week but we played some great Cricket. With Ollie away and Ray not back from his eye surgery yet it was just Alan and myself (Andy) running the whole session which made it frenetic but fun.
Alan led a great warm up with a couple of new stretches in there. It was then out with the tennis balls for some catching practice in pairs. The kids could either throw direct to each other or do a bounce pass. Alan then put a spot on the floor between each pair with the challenge be to do a bounce pass hitting the spot each time. 

After a quick drinks break Alan set up a fielding drill with the kids taking it in turns to run up, collect the ball, run around the wickets and then place the ball back on the cone on their way back.​ They then moved on to a drill focusing on throwing at the wickets. Once you had your turn you then became wicketkeeper for the next person. The wicketkeeper would roll the ball out to the next fielder so they would have to pick up the moving ball before throwing at the wicket.

The last skills practice before the main break was batting practice with the kids hitting tennis balls off of tees towards the end of the hall.​

After main break we put all that skills practice to good use in two games of three tee cricket. The group split in to two teams with Harry's team batting first whilst Valentina's team fielded. When batting you have to hit three balls off of three tees. You then have to run around the wickets as many times as possible until the fielding team have all three balls back on their tees in the original location. The fielding team can only start to field once the third and final ball of each batter has been struck.
Harry's team beat Valentina's team 45 to 37 in the first game and then 47 to 32 in the second. Great fielding by Liam, Kealan, Ellis and Harry made the difference in my opinion. 

We finished off the session with a couple of quick games of Benchball. At the end of the session Ellis and Rhys were named our star performers of the week - well done lads!
We look forward to seeing you all again next week when hopefully we will have Ray and Ollie back too!

Rhys collecting his award from Coach Alan

Alan presents Ellis with his Star of the Week award