The group stage of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) 2025-26 was accomplished on Monday with B Sai Sudharsan ending Tamil Nadu’s marketing campaign with an emphatic, scoring an unbeaten century in opposition to Saurashtra ina Group D fixture in Ahmedabad.
Right here is how Crew India’s stars carried out within the seventh spherical on Monday:
Sai Sudharsan – The Tamil Nadu opener smacked an unbeaten 101 off 55 balls not out to assist his group chase down a 184-run goal contained in the nineteenth over. Sudharsan scored 10 fours and 4 sixes in his innings and acquired Tamil Nadu over the road with simply three wickets remaining.
Ajinkya Rahane – The Mumbai opener helped the defending champion chase down a 168-run goal in opposition to Odisha with ease, scoring an unbeaten 95 off 56 balls. His innings in Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium included three sixes and 9 fours.
Mohammed Shami – The Bengal pacer picked up 4 for 30 in his 4 overs to limit Haryana to 191 for 9 within the first innings. Regardless of his memorable spell, Haryana defeated Bengal by 24 runs. Bengal couldn’t qualify for the tremendous league stage, ending with simply 4 wins in seven video games.
The scores:
Elite: Group A (Lucknow): Vidarbha 154/8 in 20 overs (Aman Mokhade 50, Akshay Wadkar 41, Satyanarayana Raju 4/26) bt Andhra 135/9 in 20 overs (Avinash Pyla 44, Yash Thakur 4/22).
Kerala 101 in 19.4 overs (Sadak Hussain 4/19) misplaced to Assam 105/5 in 18.5 overs (Pradyun Saikia 41 n.o.).
Railways 170 in 20 overs (Suraj Ahuja 47, Navneet Virk 30) misplaced to Chhattisgarh 171/5 in 19.1 overs (Amandeep Khare 78 n.o., Sanjeet Desai 36).
Odisha 167/7 in 20 overs (Sandeep Pattanaik 31, Suryansh Shedge 3/46) misplaced to Mumbai 168/1 in 16 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 95 n.o., Angkrish Raghuvanshi 38 n.o.).
Last standings: Mumbai 7-6-1-24 (2.004); Andhra 7-5-2-20 (0.926); Railways 7-3-4-12 (-0.038); Kerala 7-3-4-12 (-0.057); Vidarbha 7-3-4-12 (-0.282); Odisha 7-3-4-12 (-0.543); Assam 7-3-4-12 (-0.627); Chhattisgarh 7-2-5-8 (-1.144).
Mumbai and Andhra progressed to the subsequent stage.
Group B (Kolkata): Hyderabad 146/8 in 20 overs (Aman Rao 33, Pragnay Reddy 43, Jagjit Singh Sandhu 3/36) misplaced to Chandigarh 147/6 in 19.5 overs (Arjun Azad 63, Shivam Bhambri 42).
Uttar Pradesh 144/6 in 20 overs (Prashant Veer 40 n.o., Mangal Mahrour 3/12) misplaced to Bihar 145/4 in 19.2 overs (Ayush Loharuka 36, Piyush Singh 57, Prince Yadav 3/24).
Maharashtra 161/7 in 20 overs (Rahul Tripathi 83 n.o., V. Koushik 3/20) bt Goa 146 in 19.3 overs (Lalit Yadav 49, Darshan Misal 31, Jalaj Saxena 3/22, Tanay Sanghvi 3/23, Vicky Ostwal 3/27).
Jammu & Kashmir 150/9 in 20 overs (Auqib Nabi 32, Tripuresh Singh 3/32) bt Madhya Pradesh 137 in 20 overs (Harsh Gawali 33, Harpreet Singh Bhatia 32, Auqib Nabi 3/19, Sunil Kumar 3/32).
Last standings: Hyderabad 7-5-2-20 (1.423); Madhya Pradesh 7-4-3-16 (0.935); Maharashtra 7-4-3-16 (0.063); Goa 7-4-3-16 (-0.013); Jammu & Kashmir 7-4-3-16 (-0.538); Uttar Pradesh 7-3-4-12 (0.634); Chandigarh 7-3-4-12 (-1.092), Bihar 7-1-6-4 (-1.342).
Hyderabad and Madhya Pradesh progressed to the subsequent stage.
Group C (Hyderabad): Baroda 220/5 in 20 overs (Amit Pasi 114, Abhishek Sakuja 3/33) bt Providers 207/8 in 20 overs (Kuwar Pathak 51, Ravi Chauhan 51, Mohit Ahlawat 41, Raj Limbani 3/37).
Haryana 191/9 in 20 overs (Ankit Kumar 46, Nishant Sindhu 48, Yashvardhan Dalal 31, Mohammed Shami 4/30) bt Bengal 167 in 20 (Abishek Porel 47, Writtick Chatterjee 44).
Punjab 188/8 in 20 overs (Naman Dhir 61, Salil Arora 30, Sanvir Singh 30) bt Gujarat 113 in 16.1 overs (Saurav Chauhan 31).
Pondicherry 173/4 in 20 overs (Bhanu Anand 56, Jashwanth Shreeram 41) bt Himachal Pradesh 155/9 in 20 overs (Ekant Sen 56, Akash Vashisht 34, Adil Ayub 3/24).
Last standings: Punjab 7-5-2-20 (2.716); Haryana 7-5-2-20 (0.409); Baroda 7-4-3-16 (0.914); Gujarat 7-4-3-16 (-0.357); Pondicherry 7-4-3-16 (-0.532); Bengal 7-4-3-16 (-0.834); Himachal Pradesh 7-1-6-4 (-0.442); Providers 7-1-6-4 (-1.823).
Punjab and Haryana progressed to the subsequent stage.
Group D (Ahmedabad): Delhi 162/7 in 20 overs (Yash Dhull 52, Nitish Rana 51) bt Uttarakhand 144/7 in 20 overs (Prashant Chopra 54, Aarav Mahajan 33).
Jharkhand 215/5 in 20 overs (Virat Singh 69, Kumar Kushagra 55, Robin Minz 58) bt Rajasthan 179 in 19.2 overs (Karan Lamba 52, Sushant Mishra 3/21, Anukul Roy 3/37).
Karnataka 197/6 in 20 overs (B.R. Sharath 44, Devdutt Padikkal 32, Macneil Noronha 34) tied with Tripura 197/8 in 20 overs (Hanuma Vihari 36, Manisankar Murasingh 69); Tremendous Over: Tripura 22/0 bt Karnataka 18/1.
Saurashtra 183/7 in 20 overs (Vishvaraj Jadeja 70, Sammar Gajjar 66, R. Silambarasan 3/30) misplaced to Tamil Nadu 185/7 in 18.4 overs (B. Sai Sudharsan 101 n.o., Sunny Sandhu 30, Jaydev Unadkat 3/30).
Last standings: Jharkhand 7-7-0-28 (1.976); Rajasthan 7-6-1-24 (0.630); Delhi 7-4-3-16 (0.086); Tamil Nadu 7-3-4-12 (-0.777); Karnataka 7-2-5-8 (0.678); Saurashtra 7-2-5-8 (-0.662); Tripura 7-2-5-8 (-0.915); Uttarakhand 7-2-5-8 (-0.993).
Jharkhand and Rajasthan progressed to the subsequent stage.
(Learn as Crew, Performed, Received, Misplaced, Factors and NRR).
Printed on Dec 08, 2025