A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON AGRRESSION BETWEEN BATSMEN AND BOWLERS IN CRICKET

Ms. Rachna Vishwakarma and Ms. Nazia Khan

Abstract

The Purpose of the study was to compare the degree of aggression between senior level batsmen and bowler. The study was delimited to the fifty players (twenty- five batsmen and twenty five bowlers) who had  participate in Inter University Cricket Championship were selected randomly as the subjects for the study. The age of the subjects were ranging from 18 – 28 years. The Study was further delimited to the assessment of aggressiveness by using aggression questionnaire of Anand Kumar and P. S. Shukla. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant a difference between the Batsmen and Bowlers on the degree of aggression. For the purpose of analysis of data  ‘t’ test was employed to compare the degree of aggression between batsmen and bowlers. There was a significant difference between the means of batsmen and bowlers on the scores of aggression since the obtained value of  't' (2.78) was higher than the tabulated value. The aggression level of bowlers was found to be higher than the batsmen.

Keywords: Encouraged, Behavior, Sports and Tactics