Cricket and ADD

[drizzleborn]

I have an 11 year old boy who has various SEN and every year the wheels really come off in the Summer term. One of the major problems we have is cricket due to the slow pace of the game and the amount of doing nothing that occurs. He has ADD and the face pace of the other team sport keeps him busy but the cricket season is just so difficult for him. It's not helped at all because the other boys also see it as an opportunity to clown around too and DS very happily joins in when behaviour starts to spiral in the group.

I have searched online for article about cricket and ADD but have really come up short. I was hoping to speak to the senco and games staff with some ideas.

Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom?

TIA

erm..... how much time does he spend playing cricket exactly ?

Would it help for him to continue with other "more active" sports outside of school ? Use us some of that energy ?

If he’s in private school then potentially at this age several hours at a time 5/6 days a week

would you consider another sport? My son tried cricket but clearly that is not a game for him (ADHD) - he loves rugby, football, swimming, cycling