Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Mental imagery, also known as visualization or mental rehearsal, involves creating vivid mental representations of desired actions, situations, or outcomes. The use of mental imagery techniques has gained considerable attention in sports psychology as a tool to enhance performance by improving athletes' cognitive and psychological states. The Imagery and Sports Performance questionnaire was used to collect data from 63 cricket players during a game. Significant group differences in imagery usage were found using one-way analysis of variance (F = 16.435, p<.01) for cricket players. Both internal and exterior imagery were shown to have a beneficial effect on athletic performance (r = 0.78; p<0.01), whereas the same could be said of internal imagery and sports performance (r = 0.79; p<0.01). This paper explores the potential benefits of mental imagery techniques on the sport performance of cricket players.