EFFECTS OF SKILL TRAINING WITH AND WITHOUT VISUAL TRAINING ON CATCHING ABILITY AMONG CRICKET PLAYERS

Physical Education and Sports

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of skill training with and without visual training on catching ability among cricket players. Thirty six (n=36) men Cricket players from Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India were selected as subjects at random and their age is ranged between 16 to 19 years. The selected participants were randomly (simple random sample) assigned to one of three groups of twelve (n=12) each, such as experimental group I, experimental group II and control group. The group I (n=12) underwent skills training with visual practices, and group II (n=12) underwent skills training without visual practices for a duration of 6 weeks and the number of sessions per week is confined to three days, in addition to the regular schedule and group III (n=12) acted as control. Catching ability was selected as dependent variables and it was measured through expert rating method. Skill training with and without visual training was selected as independent variables. The level of significance was fixed at .05 level, which was considered to be appropriate. The pre test and post test random group design was used as experimental design. The collected data from the three groups prior to and immediately after the training programme on selected criterion variables were statistically analyzed with dependent test to find out the significant improvement between pre and post- test means of both groups and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference between experimental and control groups. Whenever the F ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant, the Scheffe's test was applied as post-hoc test to find out paired mean difference. The skill training with and without visual training had significantly improved the participants' catching ability among cricketers aged 16 to 19 years. Skill training with visual training outperformed the skill training without visual training on participants' catching ability among cricketers aged 16 to 19 years.

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