Setup, Equipment & Instructions
- Divide Smashies into pairs. Smashie pairs must work together to try to be the first pair to hit the wickets with their ball.
- Each Smashie starts from a cone on either side of a set of wickets.
- Smashie A rolls the ball past the wickets (or another target) so that their partner must move in to collect the ball. Smashie B can’t move until the ball is past the wickets.
- Smashie A can decide whether to then run up next to the wickets or stand back from the wickets.
- Smashie B has the option of underarm throwing at the wickets / target, to Smashie A, or running in to touch the wickets with the ball.
- The first pair to have their ball hit the wickets, scores a point.
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