SMAT 2024 Stats: Rahane’s Career-Best, Shardul Bittersweet, Shedge – A Star Is Born

Bhargav Dixit

Mumbai lift Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for the second time in three years. [Source: @ajinkyasnaik/X]Mumbai lift Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for the second time in three years. [Source: @ajinkyasnaik/X]

Mumbai lifted their second Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title in three years after defeating Madhya Pradesh by 5 wickets in the final at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday. With teams failing to defend totals against them, Mumbai's last four victories came on the back of successful nailing run-chases. For the unversed, it is for the first time when a team is reigning Ranji and Syed Mushtaq Ali champions.



SMAT 2024 Key Stats

349/5 – Baroda registered the highest innings total in T20 history. In what was also the highest Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy team total, it came against Sikkim at the Emerald High School Ground surpassing Punjab’s 275/6 against Andhra at the JSCA International Stadium Complex last year.

263 – Baroda’s 263-run victory was also the highest margin of victory (by runs) in SMAT history. Andhra held the previous record for defeating Nagaland by 179 runs in 2019.

32 – Arunachal Pradesh registered the second-lowest SMAT innings total against Jammu & Kashmir at the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC.

474 – Highest match aggregate in SMAT history in a Goa-Mumbai match at the Gymkhana Ground. Coincidently, the previous record, 464, also involved Mumbai (against Punjab at the Lalabhai Contractor Stadium in 2019).

151 – Hyderabad captain Tilak Varma posted the highest individual score in SMAT against Meghalaya at the Niranjan Shah Stadium C. Shreyas Iyer held the previous record for scoring 147 (55) against Sikkim at the Emerald High School Ground in 2019.

107 – Having hit 20 sixes this season, Andhra captain Ricky Bhui has the most sixes in SMAT history.

81 – Most runs conceded by Sikkim’s Roshan Kumar in one SMAT innings. With Arunachal Pradesh’s Ramesh Rahul and Mumbai’s Shardul Thakur also leaking 69 runs last month, the three worst bowling spells in SMAT have come this season. It was Rahul who broke Hyderbad’s Pagadala Naidu’s 14-year-old record of leaking 67 runs against Mumbai at Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground.

100 – Having played seven matches this season, Tripura captain Mandeep Singh became the first player to play 100 SMAT matches. Shifting bases after leading Punjab to a maiden SMAT title last season, Mandeep (53) also became the first captain to lead in more than 50 SMAT matches.

469 – Playing his 11th season, this was veteran Mumbai batter Ajinkya Rahane’s best SMAT season ever. Rahane, whose previous best saw him scoring 286 runs three years ago, averaged 58.62 and scored at 164.56 across eight innings this season.



10.51 – Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur conceded runs at the more than 10 per over for the first time in his SMAT career. Fourth-highest wicket-taker this season, the 33-year-old player’s strike rate of 14 is his best with respect to all SMAT seasons.

251.92 – Mumbai all-rounder Suryansh Shedge’s strike rate is the third-best among players with at least 100 runs in one SMAT season. The record belongs to Railways’ Ashutosh Sharma (277.27 in 2023). Furthermore, Shedge’s average of 43.66 made him only the second player (after Odisha’s Suryakant Pradhan in 2014/15) to average more than 40 and strike at over 250 in one SMAT season.

9.17 - Mumbai's economy rate this season was the highest among all the 10 teams who qualified for the knockouts.