Cricket Visit

Bat, bowl and catch!

Tim and Tama from New Zealand cricket came to school to teach us new skills today.

This is what we learnt:
To be good at catching you need to cross your pinky fingers and point your other fingers at the ground, your fingers need to be spread apart. When the ball lands in your hands you close your fingers around the ball and bring your hands close to your chest.

Playing a fun warm-up game which made us focus on catching.

To be good at bowling you need to remember to have straight arms. The aiming arm needs to point in the direction you want the ball to go. The bowling arm moves clockwise past your body and brushes past your ear. The ball is held by your first two fingers along the two stitch line on the ball and your thumb goes in between the two stitch lines.

We finished with a game of three bat cricket. It was heaps of fun and we hope we go out tomorrow for another round.

By Blake and Callum

Tim showing us how to bowl with a straight arm.

Our turn for bowling!