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Stay at Home Cricket Activity Pack

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During these uncertain times, we have created a stay at home cricket activity pack

We hope these activities will keep everyone busy, active and enthused about cricket during these long days

Please feel free to share photos or videos of your activities on social media and tag the Hampshire Cricket Board

You will see on our dedicated webpage that there are many more activities for people to get involved in

This pack focuses on indoor activities you can do to keep your mind active during this tough period

For further information – https://bit.ly/2XjJ9O1

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Contents

1. Carpet cricket

2. Dice Cricket

3. Cricket Objects game

4. Card cricket

5. Cricket snakes and ladders

6. Book cricket

7. Fun short quiz

8. Learning through Cricket

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1. Carpet Cricket

2. Dice Cricket

3. Cricket Objects Game

4. Card Cricket

5. Cricket Snakes and Ladders

6. Book Cricket

7. Fun Quiz

8. Lockdown Wordsearch

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See video below of how to play the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8zDMYU5l9Q&list=PLorsH7o3ysabcQctnl3GcJK40IsqTu3xQ&index=18

Bowler

The bowler will need the rolled up magazine and the marble, the rolled up magazine will rest on the book at the bowlers end, if needed to it can be lifted up slightly to make more of an angle so the ball rolls down easier. If the bowler hits the book (wickets) the batsman is out.

Batsman

The batsman will need a ruler to hit the ball. The batsman scores runs by hitting the ball through the gaps in the books that are marked with different numbers. If you hit the fielders that are standing at the books you are out, if you just hit the book and the book only it will be a dropped catch.

Fielders

These will be stick men drawn on the paper. The paper will need to be folded at the bottom and then the folded part is placed under the books so they look like they are standing up.

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Carpet Cricket

Items you will need

8 books1 ruler1 magazine 1 marble Paper for 6 fielders PenScissors

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Cricket Objects Game

Example

C – car

R – radio

I – igloo

C – chair

K – keys

E – eggs

T – table

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Use the word to think of things that

begin with each letter from the word.

It can be anything and everything. This aims to broaden vocabulary and help to improve spelling

The longer the word the more runs gained - 1 run for each letter

This may be challenging, however it will get everyone involved to help out with both the spelling and the counting of the letters to see what the final score is

Progression

To incorporate moving around they have to find an object in the house which begins with that word, e.g. C – Cushion

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Dice Cricket

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How to play

• Decide how many goes per player and how many wickets you can lose before being out.

• Each time the dice is rolled the number of runs/wickets are written down.

• If you roll a 5 you lose a wicket (while you can score 5 runs in cricket, in this game if you roll a 5 you lose a wicket).

• The winner player/team is the one who scores the most runs at the end.

Alternatives if you don’t have dice

• Use a little cardboard box and write the numbers on each of the sides.

• Write the numbers on a piece of paper cut them out and then put them in a bowl. You then take turns to pick a number and, as before, 5 means you lose a wicket.

Items you will need

1 piece of paper per player2 x Dice1 x Pen

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Items you will need

Pack of 52 cards – remove any jokers

Pen or pencil

Notepad

How to play

• Number of players for this game can be 2 to 6

• Before the start of the game agree number of overs and toss a coin to see who bowls first

• Shuffle the cards and place on a table

• Taking it in turns a player from each team will pick a card and turn it over to reveal a number

• The number is then recorded based on the key

• 6 cards equals 1 over

• At the end of the over the cards will be put back in the pack, shuffled and the next over will begin

• End of innings once overs are complete or 10 wickets lost Teams then swap over. Batting teams score will be is the score that the other team will need to beat

• The winning team is the side with the most runs

• Level scores – winner team losing fewest wickets

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Card Cricket

Key

Ace = 1 runNo. 2 = 2 runsNo.3 = 3 runsNo.4 – 4 runsNo.5 = 5 runs No. 6 = 6 runs

No. 7 = No ball 1 runNo.8 = Wide ball 1

run No. 9 = dot ball

N0. 10 = dot ballJack = Wicket

Queen = Wicket King = Wicket

Super Over – if scores level

• 1 over per team – most runs wins• You may lose one wicket• Lose 2 and the innings is over• If the scores are still level:➢ the team that has lost the fewer

wickets will be the winner➢ If still level the team who has scored

the most 6s will be the winner; then the most 5s and so on until there is a winner

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Items you will need

Homemade board DicePlayers pieces (1 per player)BatBallGarden containerItems to represent cones

Cricket Snakes and Ladders

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Double-click on the picture to the right to see how to play the game

Ideas

• Have fun designing your own board

• Take a photo and tweet it –make sure you @HampshireCB

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• When the player opens the book they note of the last unit in the page number e.g. if the opened page is 154, then the last unit is 4 so the score is 4

• Possible scores are therefore 2, 4, 6, 8 and 0

• If the number is 2, 4 or 6 the score will be added to the batsman score

• If the number is 8 that counts as a dot ball

• If the number is 0 the batsman is out

• The book continues to be opened and closed and the score added to until the batsman is out

• It is then the turn of the second player

• After both players have had a turn it is the biggest score that wins

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Book Cricket

Items you will need

A piece of paper for each playerBook preferably a big book with lot of pagesPen or PencilTwo players

How to play

• The two players will have to decide the number of batsman

• Toss a coin and decide who is going to bat first• The player who decides to bat will hold the book • The player randomly opens the book and looks for

the page number• The player should always look for the side of book

which has even numbers on it

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Round 5 - Bowling

1. What does C & B stand for?

2 . What does LBW stand for?

3 . What does the abbreviation ST stand for?

4 . What word describes a ball bowled beyond a batter’s reach?

5 . What sort of ball is bowled at the batter’s feet?

Fun Quiz

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Round 6 - For cricket badgers

1· What is the distance between the sets of stumps on a full size cricket pitch?2· There are four types of extras (sundries in Australia) in cricket, can you name them?3· Where are the headquarters of the International Cricket Council?4· What does MCC stand for in relation to cricket?5· Which London ground is said to be "The Home of Cricket"?6· Prior to The Ageas Bowl, name the three grounds where Hampshire played county cricket

a. Southamptonb. Basingstokec. Portsmouth - two points for this one if you can name both names that this ground is known by

7· What form of cricket shares its name with perfect eyesight?8· Between which two nations, not known for their cricketing prowess, did the first International take place in 1844?9· In 2019, who won: 1) The County Championship 2) The Twenty20 3) The Royal London One-Day Cup10. There are eleven ways that a batter can lose their wicket in cricket, how many can you name?11. Who is the current Australian Test captain?12. Name the Test grounds in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg

Fun Quiz

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Round 8 – Hampshire Cricket

1. Name the last 4 captains of the men’s team2. Who has been the most influential

overseas player for Hampshire Women?3. How many times have Hampshire Women

played on the main pitch at the Ageas Bowl?

4. Namethe last 4 Hampshire players (male and female) to have played for a full England side

5. How many spin bowlers are there in the current men’s and women’s teams combined?

6. Which ex-England captain has captained a Hampshire side?

7. Which ex-Hampshire wicket-keeper published his autobiography in 2019?

Fun Quiz

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Round 7 – Cricket personalities past and present

1. Who was the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket?2. Which batter has the highest Test average [99.94 runs]?3. Which batter has the highest individual score in a single Test innings?4. Which WK was called the best in the world by Adam Gilchrist?5. Who founded the break-away World Series Cricket in 1977?6. Who has taken most test wickets for England?7. Name the current captains of England’s International cricket teams

a. Testb. One Dayc. 20/20d. Womens

8. Name three female ex-internationals who are now TV/radio commentators

Fun Quiz

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Lockdown Wordsearch

Words

- Ageas Bowl - Howzat- Ashes - Lords- Ball - Pitch- Bat - Six- Dawson - Stumps- Four - Vince- Grass - Wicket

How to play

• Find all of the words listed below. • Words can be found vertically, horizontally, diagonally and

backwards• Want to make it a competition? • See who can find all the words the quickest in your household!