The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of both individual and combined plyometric and resistance training on the speed performance of male cricket players. Sixty (N=60) male cricket players who were enrolled at different colleges in the Pudukkottai District of Tamil Nadu, India, were chosen at random as the study's subjects. Plyometric training, resistance training, combined resistance and plyometric training, and control group were the four groups of fifteen individuals each that were randomly selected among the subjects (n=15). The subjects were between the ages of 18 and 21.Group-I underwent Plyometric Training, group-II underwent resistance training, Group III underwent combined resistance and plyometric training, and Group IV served as the control group in the experiment. The experimental groups had corresponding training for twelve weeks, three days a week. Speed was chosen as the dependent variable and was measured by 50 meters run. Speed tests were conducted on each individual both before and after the trial period. Analysis of covariance was used to statistically assess the data collected from the experimental groups prior to and following the experimental period (ANCOVA). The Scheffe's Post hoc test was used to ascertain the paired mean differences whenever the 'F' ratio for adjusted post test means was found to be significant. For each scenario, the degree of confidence was set at 0.05. Plyometric training, resistance training, and combined plyometric and resistance training were the experimental groups that significantly improved in the chosen variable, anaerobic power. Plyometric training, resistance training, and combined plyometric and resistance training all had a significant impact on anaerobic power. Additionally, the study's findings showed that the combined plyometric and resistance training group performed the best of the three training groups in terms of enhancing anaerobic power.

Keywords:   Plyometric Training, Resistance Training and Combined Plyometric and Resistance                  Training, Anaerobic Power