2024, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Part C

The individuals with higher imagery ability experiences greater productiveness or successfulness with compare to poor imagery. There is a need to bridge the gap between player’s mental set and performance and imagery is a popular and well-established strategy used to improve performance. Thus, the primary purpose was to compare sport imagery ability between Elite and Non-Elite cricketers. For present study the sample of 126 i.e., 63 Elite and 63 Non-Elite cricketers were selected using purposive sampling technique. The research is descriptive comparative survey where 15 items questionnaire of SIAQ (Cummings, J & Williams, and S.E. 2015) based on a 7-point Likert type scale is used for data collection. On analyzing the data using descriptive statistics mean performance for sport imagery ability of Elite cricketers was 5.40 (SD=±0.650) and of non-Elite cricketers was 4.90 (SD=0.913) respectively. Further for comparing the data independent sample-t test was administered. The calculated ‘t’ value was 3.559. The result shows the calculated ‘t’ value has significant difference at 0.05 level of significance (P=0.001). Hence it can be concluded that there is significance difference in sport imagery ability between Elite and Non-Elite cricketers from Goa.