All Stars – Session Plan

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Warm Up – Lost in space

• Video: https://icoachcricket.ecb.co.uk/activity/all-stars-cricket/624
• Aim:
  Get ready for action
  Use different whole-body movements
  Watch and catch a ball
• Equipment: Balls, Cones
• Organisation:
  Two or three players are picked as catchers, with the rest of the group as runners who are given a ball each
  Runners have to avoid being tagged by the catchers
  If tagged, a runner must stand with their legs apart and their hands on their head – they are lost in space
  To be released, a free runner must roll their ball between the legs of a runner who is lost in space
  Activator can time the game, or play until all runners become lost in space
• Adaptation/variation:
  Easier
  S – Increase space to avoid catchers
  T – Run through legs of stuck players
  E – Play without a ball
  P – Play in teams
  More challenging
  S – Decrease space to avoid catchers
  T – Change how players move around playing area
  E – Use smaller ball for catching
  P – Ask players to change rules

Batting – The Space Race

• Video: https://icoachcricket.ecb.co.uk/activity/all-stars-cricket/692
• Aim: Watch and hit a moving ball with a free swing of the bat
• Equipment: For each player, Ball, Bat, Cones
• Organisation:
  Players need to visit as many ‘planets’ (sets of cones) as possible by dribbling the ball with their bat
  Players can visit the planets in any order ?
  Activator should aim to get as many players moving as possible ?
  With more space, include more planets?
• Adaptation/variation:
  Easier
  S – Decrease size of course and/or increase size of planets
  T – Move around without ball
  E – Use larger ball
  P – Play in teams
  More challenging
  S – Increase size of course and/or decrease size of planets
  T – Bounce ball on bat
  E – Use smaller ball and/or stump
  P – Compete as an individual or in pairs

Bowling – Star Shapes

• Video: https://icoachcricket.ecb.co.uk/activity/all-stars-cricket/584
• Aim:
  Straight arm when bowling
  Co-ordinate body movements for bowling action
  
• Equipment: For each team: Balls, Ropes
• Organisation:
  Players start holding a ball at a start line with a bowling line 5-10 metres away and two target lines beyond that
  On the call of “Go” players can move forward towards the bowling line
  When the activator shouts ”Stars” the players jump into a side on ”star shape” with the ball in their outside hand and other hand facing forward
  If any players don’t get into a star shape within an allotted time they go back to the start line
  Once the players reach the bowling line they must jump into the star shape and bowl the ball with a straight arm
• Adaptation/variation:
  Easier
  Start with players on the bowling linefor their first go already in a star shape
  Reduce the distance to the target line
  Start at walking pace
  Give the All Stars more time to adopt a star shape
  More challenging
  Reduce the time to get into star shape
  Increase the distance between bowling and target line
  Decrease the distance between the target lines where the ball has to bounce

Fielding – Star Skills

• Video: https://icoachcricket.ecb.co.uk/activity/all-stars-cricket/581
• Aim:
  Different whole-body movements
  Watch and catch a ball
• Equipment: For each player, Ball
• Organisation:
  Everyone has a ball and follows the leader
  Pass ball around head, waist, knees, ankles
  Figure 8s
  Switch ball from one hand to the other
  Yo-yo – drop ball and catch before it hits the floor
  Throw and catch
  Throw, clap and catch
  Bounce and catch
  Invent your own!
• Adaptation/variation:
  Easier
  S – Spread out
  T – Select ball-handling routines appropriate to ability
  E – Use larger ball
  P – Work in teams of similar ability
  More challenging
  S – Work in smaller areas
  T – Challenge players by using non-dominant hand
  E – Use smaller ball
  P – Race against other players

Game – Continuous cricket

• Video: https://icoachcricket.ecb.co.uk/activity/all-stars-cricket/667
• Aim:
  Batters score runs
  Fielders help wicket taking
  Teamwork
• Equipment: For each game: Balls, Bats, Cones, Stumps
• Organisation:
  Two teams, four players maximum on each side
  Bowler, activator or volunteer bowls
  After hitting the ball, batter scores by running around the cones
  Fielders return ball to bowler as quickly as possible
  Bowler can bowl at any time once they have the ball
  Batters can be caught or bowled out
  Three hits per batter and rotate
  Both teams bat
• Adaptation/variation:
  Easier
  S – Decrease running distance or spread fielders out
  T – Activator or volunteer feeds or bowls for both teams
  E – Use larger ball
  P – Change the game to suit the batter’s ability
  More challenging
  S – Increase running distance
  T – Introduce scoring zones
  E – Use smaller ball
  P – Introduce scoring or increase the number of fielders