Here is your one-stop for cricket fielding drills.

These drills are the fastest way to improve your essential cricket fielding skills. There is nowhere with a more comprehensive set of free fielding drills than here on PitchVision Academy.

Below you will find cricket fielding drills for all aspects of the game: Stopping, throwing and catching, infield and outfield. These drills are hard tested in the real world with cricketers across a range of skills and experience. So, whether you are a total beginner, a professional cricketer, or somewhere in-between you will find something that you can use right away.

This is a free resource for cricket coaches and players on a mission to improve their fielding. Here are the fielding drills:

Stopping Drills

These drills improve your ability to stop the ball travelling along the ground efficiently.

• Keep on Moving (Stop, throw, backup)
• Long barrier
• Stopper in the middle
• In goal diving
• Fielding circle
• Attackers vs. defenders (pressure game)
• Court Ball
• Pickup, backup and return
• Boundary Stopping
• Colin Bland's Game
• The pickup shuttle (agility development)
• World-Class Nicker

Underarm Throw Drills

When you are looking to quickly hit the stumps from close in, an underarm throw is the skill to drill. These drills make underarm throwing fun.

• Winner takes all
• Underarm throw and backup
• Two Ball Game
• Underarm Relay
• Underarm Fitness
• Three Ball Relay
• Fast Feet
• Double Underarm Race

Overarm Throw Drills

Overarm throwing is a marquee skill: Improving power and accuracy is vital to how a fielder performs, and how a team looks. Theses fielding drills are all about developing the skill:

• Duck Shoot
• Bobble Target Game
• Run Them Out
• Back Them Up
• Chase and Return
• PitchVision fielding - Hit the stumps
• Take on me (with running between the wickets skills)
• Hunt in packs
• Introduction to 360 Degree Fielding
• Advanced 360 Degree Fielding
• How to Have a Bullet Throw
• Non-Throwing Side

High Catching Drills

• High Catch Warm-Up
• Decision Maker
• High catching fitness
• Over the shoulder number
• Catcher in the middle
• Square Catching
• Sprint and Throw
• Front and Back
• Monster Machine Gun
• The Starting Station

Close Catching Drills

• Slip catching nicks
• Catching competition
• Close catching relay game
• Double slip cordon
• Catching ladder
• Funky Catching Area

Fielding Drill Games

This section is less about closed cricket skill drills and more about open ended games and situations where you can test your abilities under pressure or for fitness reasons.

• Pre-match Skill Warm Up
• 3 Skill Relay (underarm, overarm, catch)
• Run out chance
• 4 Stump warm up
• 3 Stump game
• Semi-circle cricket (includes running between the wickets)
• Ball sprints (acceleration development)
• Rob the Nest (speed and agility)
• Drives

How to use cricket fielding drills

These drills are great, but to get the best from them you need to get some context too. That means understanding when and how to incorporate them into practice sessions.

There is no best time to do fielding drills, most coaches will put them in as part of a warm up or extended warm up into skill work at the sttat of a session. That's a great idea if you need to work on fielding while fresh and focused. Plus, it's good for those players who find fielding a chore to "get it done" before they sneak away after having a net.

However, its also just as valid to use drills later in practice. They can break up a session, give batters and bowlers something to do during downtime. Just be sure you know the dangers.

On top of this, it's important to know why you are doing a drill. Is it for skill development, honing technique, fitness, fielding under pressure or something else? If the drill doesn't fit your needs, do another.

Finally, try and keep fielding drills short and focused. Drills that go on for too long end up becoming dull and not developing skills. It's better to do a fielding drill for five minutes and get a little better than to try and do it for 20 minutes to get a lot better. It doesn't work like that!

Please feel free to comment below with your thoughts on drills, and don't forget to bookmark this page and check back as we add new cricket fielding drills.