Setup, Equipment & Instructions
- Split Smashies into groups of three. Each Smashie group plays on their own arena.
- One Smashie begins as the underarm bowler, five paces away. Another Smashie stands in front of the wickets, using a single wicket as their bat and the third Smashie becomes the wicketkeeper and stands behind the wickets.
- The bowler underarm throws the ball to bounce on the full inside of one of two hula hoops.
- The batters goal is to hit the ball.
- The wicketkeeper tries to catch the ball if missed by the batter.
- If the ball goes past the batter after landing in a hoop, the bowler scores a point. If the batter hits the ball they score a point. If the wicketkeeper catches the ball, they score a point.
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