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Hampshire Board Stay at Home Cricket Activity Pack

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 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

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1. Carpet cricket 2. Dice Cricket1. Carpet Cricket 3. Cricket Objects2. Dice game Cricket 4. Card cricket3. Cricket Objects Game 5. Cricket snakes4. Card and Cricket ladders 6. Book cricket5. Cricket Snakes and Ladders 7. Fun short6. quizBook Cricket 8. Learning7. throughFun Quiz Cricket 8. Lockdown Wordsearch

3 Hampshire Cricket Board Carpet Cricket

Items you will need Bowler 8 books 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 1 ruler lifted up slightly to make more of an angle so the ball rolls down easier. If the 1 magazine bowler hits the book (wickets) the batsman is out. 1 marble Paper for 6 fielders Batsman Pen Scissors 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. See video below of how to play the game Fielders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8 These will be stick men drawn on the paper. The paper will need to be folded zDMYU5l9Q&list=PLorsH7o3ysabcQctnl at the bottom and then the folded part is placed under the books so they look 3GcJK40IsqTu3xQ&index=18 like they are standing up.

4 Hampshire Cricket Board Cricket Objects Game

Example Use the word to think of things that begin with each letter from the word. C – car Progression R – radio It can be anything and everything. This aims to broaden vocabulary and help to improve spelling I – igloo To incorporate moving around C – chair they have to find an object in the house which begins with The longer the word the more runs gained - 1 run for K – keys each letter that word, e.g. C – Cushion E – eggs This may be challenging, however it will get everyone T – table involved to help out with both the spelling and the counting of the letters to see what the final score is Score - 31

5 Hampshire Cricket Board Dice Cricket

Items you will need

1 piece of paper per player 2 x Dice 1 x Pen How to play

• Decide how many goes per player and how many wickets you can lose before being out. Alternatives if you don’t have dice • Each time the dice is rolled the number of • Use a little cardboard box and write the runs/wickets are written down. numbers on each of the sides. • If you roll a 5 you lose a wicket (while you can score • Write the numbers on a piece of paper 5 runs in cricket, in this game if you roll a 5 you lose cut them out and then put them in a a wicket). bowl. You then take turns to pick a • The winner player/team is the one who scores the number and, as before, 5 means you most runs at the end. lose a wicket.

6 Hampshire Cricket Board Card Cricket

Items you will need How to play Key Pack of 52 cards – remove any jokers • Number of players for this game can be 2 to 6 Ace = 1 run Pen or pencil • Before the start of the game agree number of overs and a coin to see who first No. 2 = 2 runs Notepad No.3 = 3 runs • Shuffle the cards and place on a table No.4 – 4 runs Super – if scores level • Taking it in turns a player from each team will pick a card No.5 = 5 runs and turn it over to reveal a number • 1 over per team – most runs wins No. 6 = 6 runs • The number is then recorded based on the key • You may lose one wicket No. 7 = No ball 1 run • Lose 2 and the is over • 6 cards equals 1 over No.8 = ball 1 • If the scores are still level: • At the end of the over the cards will be put back in the run ➢ the team that has lost the fewer pack, shuffled and the next over will begin No. 9 = dot ball wickets will be the winner • End of innings once overs are complete or 10 wickets lost N0. 10 = dot ball ➢ If still level the team who has scored Teams then swap over. teams score will be is the Jack = Wicket the most 6s will be the winner; then score that the other team will need to beat Queen = Wicket the most 5s and so on until there is • The winning team is the side with the most runs King = Wicket a winner • Level scores – winner team losing fewest wickets

7 Hampshire Cricket Board Cricket Snakes and Ladders

Items you will need Ideas

Homemade board • Have fun designing your own Dice board Players pieces (1 per player) • Take a photo and tweet it – Bat make sure you @HampshireCB Ball Garden container Items to represent cones

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

8 Hampshire Cricket Board Book Cricket

Items you will need • When the player opens the book they note of the last unit A piece of paper for each player in the page number e.g. if the opened page is 154, then Book preferably a big book with lot of pages the last unit is 4 so the score is 4 Pen or Pencil • Possible scores are therefore 2, 4, 6, 8 and 0 Two players • If the number is 2, 4 or 6 the score will be added to the batsman score How to play • If the number is 8 that counts as a dot ball • The two players will have to decide the number of • If the number is 0 the batsman is out batsman • The book continues to be opened and closed and the score • Toss a coin and decide who is going to bat first added to until the batsman is out • The player who decides to bat will hold the book • It is then the turn of the second player • The player randomly opens the book and looks for • After both players have had a turn it is the biggest score the page number that wins • The player should always look for the side of book which has even numbers on it

9 Hampshire Cricket Board Fun Quiz

Round 5 -

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?

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Round 6 - For cricket badgers

1· What is the distance between the sets of stumps on a full size ? 2· There are four types of extras (sundries in ) in cricket, can you them? 3· Where are the headquarters of the International Cricket Council? 4· What does MCC stand for in relation to cricket? 5· Which 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. b. Basingstoke c. 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 3) The Royal London One-Day Cup 10. 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 ? 12. Name the Test grounds in , Cape Town and Johannesburg

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Round 8 – Hampshire Cricket 1. Name the last 4 captains of the men’s team 2. 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 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?

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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 ? 5. Who founded the break-away in 1977? 6. Who has taken most test wickets for England? 7. Name the current captains of England’s International cricket teams a. Test b. One Day c. 20/20 d. Womens 8. Name three female ex-internationals who are now TV/radio commentators

13 Hampshire Cricket Board Lockdown Wordsearch

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!

Words

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

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