Abstract
This study presents a comprehensive exploration of cricket psychology, analyzing mental skill ability across diverse age groups, including U-17, U-19, U-23, and seniors. Mean scores, standard deviations, standard errors, and percentages offer a detailed portrait of mental skill variations, revealing the evolving nature of mental resilience throughout a cricketer's career. The study's significance lies in informing tailored training programs, enhancing mental fortitude specific to developmental stages. As cricket increasingly becomes a mental battle, the analysis contributes to academic sports psychology and holds practical implications for player development and coaching interventions. Present study featuring Scheffe's post hoc analysis, highlights a significant difference in mental skill ability between senior and U-23 Cricketers (mean difference = 9.218, Sig. = .042**). While mean differences for U-17 and U-19 groups are higher for seniors, they are not statistically significant (Sig