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Description

Playing rounders can improve your skills, reflexes and cardiovascular health. Getting outside and getting to know a new group of people can also be beneficial to your mental health. Rounders is a sport that has been played in England since Tudor times. It is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams. The very earliest rules of rounders as a sport were devised by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, in 1884. Rounders is a sport played on an open and irregular pentagon shaped pitch.

When playing, children should understand the principles of attacking and defending and be able to apply them to game-play. The game of rounders expects children to be able to control their throwing skills to make sure the ball reaches their teammates as quickly and precisely as possible.

Resources

Comfortable clothes, with a bit of stretch.

Bat,
Ball,
4 posts and bases will be provided

Instructions

Rounders games are played between two teams.
Each team has a minimum of 4 players.
All children must adhere to social distancing on the field.
One team bats while the other team fields and bowls.
The bowler bowls the ball to the batter, who hits the ball forward on the rounders pitch.
The batter then runs to as many posts as possible before the fielders return the ball to touch the post the batter is heading for.
If the batter reaches the 2nd or 3rd post in one hit, the batting team scores ½ a rounder. If the batter reaches the 4th post in one hit, the batting team scores a full rounder.
Games are usually played over 2 innings with the aim of the game to score the most rounders.
Just like in cricket, the ball can be hit in any direction, but if the ball goes behind the batter, they can only run to the first base until it has been thrown back across that line.

Tags

• Outdoor
• skill games
• team game

Badge Links

• Athletics - Run
• Outdoors - Wide game
• Skills - New sport
• Teamwork - Team game