A comparative study of precompetitive anxiety between club levels batsman and bowlers

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to find out pre-competition anxiety between 1st division club level males batsman and bowlers. Due to the fact that during competition players mental state greatly affects their stamina explosion, which finally influences the result of final competition. It refers to a short of nervous and fear emotion formed by frustration of self-esteem and self- confidence, or increasing of the sense of failure and guilty, which is resulted by the threat from being unable to achieve goals or to overcome obstacles at the right time. For the purpose of the study the subjects were selected randomly from different 1st division club of burdwan district to measure the pre-competition anxiety by a questionnaire Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Rainer Marten. 20 club level bowlers and 20club level batsmen were selected from club level 1st division tournament. To find out pre-competition anxiety between club level batsman and bowlers ‘t’ test was applied to calculate of collected data at 0.05 level of significant. The result showed that there was no significant difference on pre-competition anxiety between club level batsman and bowler.