Mumbai has won Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title for the second time in 3 years. The team defeated Madhya Pradesh by 5 wickets in the final played in Bengaluru on Sunday. Batting first at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, MP scored 174 runs. Mumbai chased down the target by losing 5 wickets in 17.5 overs.
Suryakumar Yadav scored 48 runs from Mumbai. Suryansh Shedge played an unbeaten innings of 36 runs off 15 balls and Atharva Ankolekar 16 runs off 6 balls. Captain Rajat Patidar from MP scored 81 runs in 40 balls. Earlier, Mumbai also became champions in 2022.
Bad start to MP After losing the toss and coming to bat first, MP got off to a poor start. The team lost 2 wickets in the first 2 overs. Arpit Gaur was dismissed for just 3 runs and wicketkeeper Harsh Gawli was dismissed for just 2 runs. Harpreet Singh Bhatia first batted slowly in the powerplay and was then dismissed for an innings of 15 runs off 23 balls.
Rajat Patidar fought alone Subhranshu Senapati scored 23 runs off 17 balls, but was sent to the pavilion by Shivam Dubey. After that, Rajat Patidar remained at one end and wickets kept falling at the other end. Venkatesh Iyer scored 17 runs in 9 balls and Rahul Batham scored 19 runs in 14 balls. Shivam Shukla and Kumar Karthike each scored 1 each, Tripuresh Singh could not open the account either.
Patidar scored 81 runs off 40 balls, his innings included 6 fours and 6 sixes. He scored runs at a strike rate of 202.50. Patidar shared a partnership of 34 runs with Venkatesh and 56 runs with Batham. He is also the second top run scorer of the tournament.
Shardul took 2 wickets Shardul Thakur and Royston Das took 2 wickets each for Mumbai. Spinner Atharva Ankolekar took 1 wicket. Medium pacers Shivam Dubey and Suryansh Shadge also got 1 wicket each. A player was run out.
Good start for Mumbai Mumbai got off to a good start against a target of 175 runs. Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for 10 runs, but the team took the score to 48 runs by the fifth over. Captain Shreyas Iyer scored 16 runs. Opener Ajinkya Rahane again maintained the scoring rate along with Suryakumar Yadav.
Rahane and Surya shared a partnership and took the score close to 100 runs. Rahane got out after scoring 37 runs, after which Shivam Dube could score only 9 runs. Surya was also dismissed after making 48 runs.
Ajinkya Rahane and Suryakumar Yadav shared a partnership of 52 runs.
Shadg had a one-sided run chase Mumbai were 129 for 5 with the team needing 46 off 32 balls. Here Suryansh Shedge came in to bat, scoring 36 runs off just 15 balls with 3 sixes and 3 fours. With his support, Atharva Ankolekar scored 16 runs in 6 balls and hit the winning six in the 18th over to give the team victory.
Fast bowler Tripuresh Singh took 2 wickets from MP. Shivam Shukla, Venkatesh Iyer and Kumar Karthikeya got 1-1 each. Awesh Khan and Rahul Botham could not take any wickets.
Rahane was the player of the tournament For Mumbai, Shadge scored 36 runs and took 1 wicket, earning him the player of the match award. Ajinkya Rahane was the player of the tournament scoring 469 runs in 9 matches at a strike rate of 164.56. MP captain Rajat Patidar was second with 428 runs.
Mumbai also won the title in 2022 In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy final, Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh teams met for the first time. Earlier, both played a 1-1 final against different teams. Mumbai beat Himachal Pradesh by 3 wickets in 2022. While MP had to face defeat by 1 run against Bengal in 2011. Mumbai won the title for the second time, while MP once again came up empty-handed.
Mumbai won the SMAT title under Ajinkya Rahane in 2022 and Shreyas Iyer in 2024.
Mumbai defeated Baroda, MP Delhi in the semi-finals Madhya Pradesh topped Group-A and Mumbai topped Group-E to make it to the quarter-finals. Both had to face a 1-1 loss. Mumbai defeated Vidarbha by 6 wickets and MP defeated Saurashtra by 6 wickets in the quarter finals. In the semi-finals, Mumbai defeated Baroda by 6 wickets and MP defeated Delhi by 7 wickets.
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