How to Play Modern Danish Longball
Danish Longball is a cross between cricket and football! The aim of the game is to score as many runs as possible.
How to Play
• Set up the area as shown in the diagram on the
Modern Danish Longball Pitch resource (on a
field or in a hall).
• Organise the children into two equal teams (a
minimum of six and maximum of ten players on
each team).
• One team begins as kickers and one as fielders.
• The bowler stands in the ‘bowling circle’ and rolls
the ball at the kicker in the ‘kicking zone’, who
kicks it as far as they can out into the pitch.
• As soon as the ball has been kicked, the fielding
team may move and attempt to catch the ball.
Equipment
They then try to return it to the bowler or hit • Large outdoor/indoor space
the kicker, below waist height, before the kicker • One hoop
has reached the ‘safe zone’.
• Fielders may not move with the ball. • A stack of cones to mark kicking, fielding and
safe zones
• The kicker must try to return to the ‘kicking
zone’. This can be done whenever the bowler • A soft football-sized ball
does not have possession of the ball.
• Coloured bibs
• Fielders may also try to hit players running
back to the ‘kicking zone’, with the ball.
• Once all the kicking team are out or there are no Bowling Rules
kickers waiting to kick in the ‘kicking zone’, the • A ball can only be bowled underarm and along
teams swap over. the ground.
• Any ball that bounces higher than shin height
Point System or goes wide of the ‘kicking plate’ is a no ball.
• Half run for each successful run made to the • The bowler must not step outside of their bowling
‘safe zone’. circle at any point in the game, if they do, five
• One run for each kicker who makes it back to runs are awarded to the other team.
the ‘kicking zone’.
Catching a Player Out
Kicking Rules Kickers are out when:
• Batters may only kick the ball forwards into the • a fielder catches their kicked ball;
‘fielding zone’.
• there are more than three players in the ‘safe
• Batters may only make contact with the ball zone’ and the first player to enter this zone is out;
with their feet or lower legs.
• when they are hit below waist height, with the
• If a batter misses a ball, they must run anyway. ball, by one of the fielders.
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