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Coach EducationFielding drills are the fastest way to improve your essential cricket fielding skills. There is nowhere with a more comprehensive set of drills than right here on PitchVision Academy.
Below you will find fielding drills for all aspects of cricket. You can improve your throwing, catching, stopping and picking up by spending just a few minutes a day on these drills.
If you want even more fielding techniques, tactics and animated drills from one of the best fielders in the world, check out Fielding: The Derek Randall Way on PitchVision Academy. Now with live video versions!
Cricket Fielding Drills on PitchVision Academy
Stopping Drills
- Long barrier
- Stopper in the middle
- In goal diving
- Fielding circle
- Attackers vs. defenders (pressure game)
- Court Ball
- Pickup, backup and return
- Boundary Stopping
- Colin Bland's Game
- The pickup shuttle (agility development)
Underarm Throw Drills
- Winner takes all
- Underarm throw and backup
- Two Ball Game
- Underarm Relay
- Underarm Fitness
- Three Ball Relay
- Fast Feet
- Double Underarm Race
Overarm Throw Drills
- Duck Shoot
- Bobble Target Game
- Run Them Out
- Back Them Up
- Chase and Return
- PitchVision fielding - Hit the stumps
- Take on me (with running between the wickets skills)
- Hunt in packs
- Introduction to 360 Degree Fielding
- Advanced 360 Degree Fielding
High Catching Drills
- High Catch Warm-Up
- Decision Maker
- High catching fitness
- Over the shoulder number
- Catcher in the middle
- Square Catching
- Sprint and Throw
- Front and Back
Close Catching Drills
- Slip catching nicks
- Catching competition
- Close catching relay game
- Double slip cordon
- Catching ladder
Fielding Drill Games
- Pre-match Skill Warm Up
- 3 Skill Relay (underarm, overarm, catch)
- Run out chance
- 4 Stump warm up
- 3 Stump game
- Semi-circle cricket (includes running between the wickets)
- Ball sprints (acceleration development)
- Rob the Nest (speed and agility)
- Drives
Past Drills
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Comments
A progression could be to have player 1 run up to the stump to take the return if he misses the stump on his attemp.
2 LET the backup group stand at an angle to make the backing up more challenging and a match day situation.
Thanks Mark, a progression of which drill though?
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Hi all great information here and good thread to comment on.
Can I ask though - how did you get this picked up and into google news?
Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?
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i wnat these fielding drills as i am a cricket coach
i need these crickt drills as i m cricket coach in my state jammu and kashmir.
Feel free to use them friend.
thanks a lot u made cricket 2easy
i am a 72yr old that coaches junior (under 11) cricket @ alberton cricket club in gauteng in south africa.i always enjoy your articles.
could u email me a few fielding drills that i can use with my kids.
my grandsons (twins) play in my team they open bat & bowl. they are both cricket fanatics & know all the test stadiums in the uk. one day i hope to bring them over as they want to play cricket full time. pls keep up the good work.
regards
eric locke
HI,
I have found the various cricket drills to be very helpful. I am a P.E. teacher and have never played before, but am hoping to introduce the game to my middle school in Sept., and to perhaps form a team.
Any advice on where and how I should start? Can you recommend any other support material please?
Thx.
Eric, do they open the batting and bowling because they are the best or is it because you are the coach?
les,
they open for the club & the school where i have no say.most children do not like to open,as they believe the best bowlers are on.the open the bowling because they take the most wickets & only bowl 4 overs max.
the both play for the districts school team & have for 2 yrs,i find that i am more critical with them because i coach them.last season the lost one game only so they must be doing something right,
Hi i am 22 and have just been asked to help out at my nephews school with coaching the kids ages 8 to 11 in kampala uganda. could you please mail me some drills i could use to make the training fun. plus i enjoy reading your articles
I am a Junior cricket coach working in a school. I am very much intersted to introduce new fielding drills to our kids. If u mail some drills it will be useful for our school kids who are very keen in cricket. Hoping ur mail
You can download the drills from Derek Randall's coaching course page. See the link at the top.
sir
i have a tomany filding drills,but i want athree months full cricketing program
like off seasion traning how to conduct nets every day,daily nets variation including fielding drills. sir how ever i got before but i want some advance fielding drills.
with regards
satyendra singh
(satya)
very good drills for cricket coaching.most help in cricket developing countries like zimbabwe.Pliz send us more drills
I need some cricketing drills and coaching system.
I need some cricketing drills and coaching system.
Hi there.
I am a coach who deals with the age group between 11-15.
I would like to know about the various drills used in cricket.
Especially warming up, and fielding drills.
Keep up the good work.
Warm Regards
V Manikoth
If anyone has drills to share please email or tweet me, I'm starting to run out..
I wanted to know if there are any fielding drills which can be done alone??
Thank u very much sir.................................
I learning lot of things................
Howdy! Do you use Twitter? I'd like to follow you if that would be okay. I'm undoubtedly enjoying your blog and look forward to new
posts.
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