Rounders

& Baseball
Materials: The equipment needed for rounders Playground: Rounders pitch. The pitch features
consists of a truncheon shaped rounders bat a bowler's square (2.5m) which is 7.5m from the
(shorter than baseball bat), a rounders ball and 4 batter's square (2m). 1 metre behind the batter's
posts set out in a diamond shape.
square the Backstop line should be marked. The four
posts are positioned around the bowler's square as
shown in the diagram (black lines show lines that
should be marked; green lines are for measuring
only)

Number of players: two teams of 6 players. Lenght: The pitch features a bowler's square

(2.5m) which is 7.5m from the batter's square (2m).

Description of the game: Therere two teams, each team should have at least 6 players. One

player of the opposite team, throws the ball rolling by the floor towards the other team batter. If he hits
the ball, he have tu run throught all the bases, knocking down all the posts located in the 4 bases. If he
reach the last base before the ball (the opposite team have to pass the ball until it reach the final base
before de current batter).

Some rules:

The batter gets one chance to hit the ball (ignoring no-balls) and must run even if the ball is not
struck.
If the ball is hit behind the batting square or not hit at all, the batter may can only run to first base.
Otherwise, the batter runs around as many of the bases as possible and stops at a post only when
the batter thinks there is a danger of the next post being 'stumped'.
the batter hits the ball and it is caught without first hitting the ground
the post being run to is 'stumped' - a fielder touches it with the ball
the batter runs inside a post
the batter loses contact with a post when the bowler has the ball inside the bowler's square
the batter overtakes a fellow batter when running around the posts.
while not running between posts, the batter obstructs a fielder the batter's foot is outside the
batter's square when the ball is bowled

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