Year 10 - Physical education
Aggressive batting for maximum runs
Striking and fielding games: teaching others to play creative cricket games
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' ability to teach each other and to play a variety of creative cricket games independently. Pupils will draw on their leadership skills to train, compete and perform.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to play a range of batting shots to score runs quickly.
Key Notes
- Move: changing foot position to respond to short pitched balls puts the batter in position to playback foot shots.
- Move: timing the swing to hit the ball in the middle of the bat gives the best chance of the ball travelling far.
- Think: maximising runs comes with a significantly increased risk of getting caught out.
- Feel: being brave when facing short balls increases the chance of scoring runs, defending the ball and not being hit.
- Connect: tactically aggressive batting at the right times in a game lead to better run rates and cause for celebration.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hook (shot): stroke played to a short-pitched ball around chest height, hitting it towards the leg side, typically between mid-wicket and square leg
- pull (shot): stroke played to a short-pitched ball, where the batter hits it on the leg side with a horizontal bat between mid-wicket and square leg
- cut (shot): stroke played to a short, wide ball where the batter hits it square or behind square on the off side using a horizontal bat
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Many young batters fail to move their feet when batting, instead they try to contort their bodies to deal with all sorts of line and length deliveries with little success.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: changing foot position to respond to short pitched balls puts the batter in position to playback foot shots. Move: timing the swing to hit the ball in the middle of the bat gives the best chance of the ball travelling far.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'hook (shot)'
stroke played to a short-pitched ball around chest height, hitting it towards the leg side, typically between mid-wicket and square leg.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Many young batters fail to move their feet when batting, instead they try to contort their bodies to deal with all sorts of line and length deliveries with little success. Correction: Through practice, pupils can learn how to move their feet in response to different pitches of delivery. With short deliveries moving weight on to the back foot and changing foot position allows for pull, hook and cut shots.
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