After tuning up our throwing and catching skills we split into two teams for a game of Speed Cricket. One team was batting and when the ball connected with the bat it sounded like a bomb! The bat made a hard jolt like an earthquake on your hands. Once you’d hit the ball you had to run around a cone and back to your team, running behind the wickets (except that most people forgot the BEHIND bit!). Next you had to pass the bat to the next player in the line. If the batter missed the ball then that team had to give up one bat. There were three bats altogether. Everyone had a turn at batting.
Meanwhile the other team were fielding. When the batters hit the ball the fielders had to catch the ball and send it back to the bowler. Everybody chased the ball. We looked like a swarm of bees in pursuit of a honey thief. Once the successful bee had thrown the ball back to the bowler the other bees spread out again.
We all had great fun batting, bowling and fielding. Each of us got given a bag of goodies about cricket. We wish the guys from Canterbury Cricket would come back!
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