Official bodies and rules

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Sports Tournaments Cricket Tournaments

Objectives

History

  • Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
  • Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
  • Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information.

PE

  • Play competitive games, modified where appropriate (for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis), and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.

Lesson Planning

Find out about the first official cricket club in Marylebone in London and how it used to rule cricket. Play a game of cricket using the first Code of Laws created in 1744.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about the start of professional cricket and tournaments.
  • To play cricket using the first Laws of the Game.

Children will:

  • Find historical information in non-fiction
  • Explain how the laws of cricket have changed over the years
  • Play a modified game of cricket

Provided Resources

  • Questions about Lord’s cricket ground
  • Early Code of Laws compared to modern rules
  • Play a game of cricket using the 1744 Code of Laws

You Will Need

  • Cricket bats
  • Wicket
  • Balls
  • Pitch.