IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

A RELATIONSHIP STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES WITH THE PLAYING ABILITY OF CRICKET BATSMEN

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Neeraj kumar ,Dr. R.P. Garg

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This study is aimed to find the association among the selected Psychological variables and batting performance in cricket. A total of 50 male subjects were selected from the cricket camp, practice match, and their cricket academy in Haryana and Delhi by using random sampling. The age of the subjects ranged from 17 to 28 years old (19.08 ± 1.22), and all were regular players with good skills. The psychological assessment instrument developed by Dr. M.L. Kamlesh (SAMT) was used to evaluate achievement motivation (1990), Smith's (1979) standard psychological instrument was used to evaluate aggression and the Agnihothri Self-confidence Inventory (ASCI), created by Rekha Agnihotri in 1987, was used to assess self-confidence were all measured in this study. For the sake of this investigation, descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation methods were used for analyze. A value of 0.05 was chosen to represent the level of significance. The findings of this investigation showed that in the majority of selected Psychological variables, finding of the present study clearly reveals that Achievement motivation and self-confidence, have a significant relationship with the performance of Batting in Cricket players.

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