On Saturday I attended an ECB CPD workshop, Training & Interventions for Young People & Adults (YPA).
As part of the workshop, we each had to devise a training intervention. I came up with this – derived from the jail-break cricket game.
For a group of U17s, moving from 20 over to 40 over (or longer) format; challenged by the need to bat for longer periods of time without sacrificing scoring opportunities.
Batting in pairs, batters have a limited number of “lives”; lose them all, and the innings is over; gain more lives by hitting the ball to a designated target zone (analogous to the JBZ). (more…)