Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy 2023 | Live Streaming, Groups, Squads & All You Need To Know
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The T20 version of domestic cricket in India, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) is an annual tournament involving senior cricketers from the country. The biggest names from the Indian Premier League (IPL), alongside some young upcoming talent, will feature in the cricketing extravaganza that marks the beginning of the domestic season.
What are the dates for the tournament?
A total of 135 matches will be played, with the first game scheduled on 16th October and as many as 18 matches in a day, whereas the final will be played on 6th November after teams have gone through Pre-Quarterfinal, Quarter-Final and Semi-Final Stage.
What are the groups for SMAT 2023?
Like with the Ranji Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy in India, 38 teams are divided into five groups from A to E, with Groups A, B, and C featuring eight teams each, while remaining groups D & E having seven sides in their ranks.
Elite A: Haryana, Mumbai, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Hyderabad, Meghalaya, Baroda, J&K
Elite B: Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Services, Sikkim, Assam, Odisha, Bihar, Chandigarh
Elite C: Punjab, Saurashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra, Goa, Manipur, Railways
Elite D: Uttarakhand, Vidarbha, Bengal, Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Jharkhand
Elite E: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura
Where will the SMAT 2023 matches be held?
Ranchi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Mohali and Dehradun will be hosting the group stage matches of the tournament, as Mohali will also take care of all the knock-out matches alongside Chandigarh.
Elite Group A will play their matches in Jaipur, Group B in Mumbai, Group C in Ranchi, Group D in Mohali, whereas Group E will be stationed in Dehradun.
Who are the prominent players in the tournament?
From Mumbai's Ajinkya Rahane to Sanju Samson from Kerala, Rinku Singh's explosive batting against Umran Malik's fiery pace, Yashasvi Jaiswal's blistering start matched by Maharashtra's Ruturaj Gaikwad, there would be no dearth of talent in the 21-day event. The likes of Ishant Sharma, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar and Riyan Parag are expected to light up the tournament.
What are the match timings for SMAT 2023?
Generally, matches would be played at four different timings during the course of the day, with the first match starting at 9 AM, the second match beginning at 11 AM, the third at 1:30 PM, while the last match of the day would start at 4:30 PM. (All timings are in IST)
Where can the fans watch SMAT 2023?
Matches of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy can be streamed live on JioCinema App and Website along with Sports18 Khel if watching on television.
What are the squads for SMAT 2023?
Group A
Baroda: Bhanu Pania, Jyotsnil Singh, Mahesh Pithiya, Shivalik Sharma, Vishnu Solanki (c), Atit Sheth, Harsh Desai, Krunal Pandya, Ninad Rathva, Abhimanyu Singh (Wk), Chintal Gandhi, Dhruv Patel, Kartik Kakade, Lukman Meriwala, Soyeb Sopariya
Chhattisgarh: Amandeep Khare, Anuj Tiwary, Gagandeep Singh, Harpreet Singh (c), Sanidhya Hurkat, Sanjeet Desai, Shashank Singh, Ajay Mandal, Shubham Agarwal, Sumit Ruikar, Eknath Kelkar, Shashank Chandrakar (Wk), Aayush Thakur, Sourabh Majumdar
Haryana: Ankit Kumar, Himanshu Rana, Yashu Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Mayank Shandilya, Nishant Sindhu, Rahul Tewatia, Sumit Kumar, Dinesh Bana (Wk), Sarvesh Rohilla, Aman Kumar, Amit Mishra, Harshal Patel, Jayant Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
Hyderabad: Aman Perala, Bhavesh Seth, Chandan Sahani, Rahul Buddhi, Rahul Singh Gahlaut, Rohit Rayudu, Shaunak Kulkarni, Tanmay Agarwal, Tilak Varma (c), G Aniketh Reddy, Ravi Teja, Rahul Radesh Chigullapalli, Chama Milind, CTL Rakshan, Elligaram Sanketh, Tanay Thyagarajan
Jammu & Kashmir: Abdul Samad, Henan Nazir, Qamran Iqbal, Shubham Khajuria (c), Shubham Pundir, Abid Mushtaq, Lone Nasir, Sahil Lotra, Umar Nazir Mir, Vivrant Sharma, Fazil Rashid (Wk), Auqib Nabi, Rasikh Dar, Umran Malik, Yudhvir Singh
Meghalaya: Anish Charak, Kilco Marak, Rajesh B Bishnoi, Nakul Verma (Wk), Akash Choudhary, Amiangshu Sen, Chengkam Sangma, Junjun Sangma, Larry Sangma, Ram Gurung, Riboklang Hynniewta, Sanvert Kurkalang, Sylvester Mylliempdah
Mizoram: F Vanlalmuanzuala, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Lalhruaizela, Remruatdika Ralte, Rosiamliana Ralte, Jehu Anderson, Gaurav Singh, KC Cariappa, Lalhruai Ralte, Mohit Jangra
Mumbai: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Ajit Yadav, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sarfaraz Khan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sairaj Patil, Shams Mulani, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Hardik Tamore (Wk), Prasad Pawar (Wk), Atharva Ankolekar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohit Avasthi, Royston Dias, Tushar Deshpande
Group B
Assam: Denish Das, Erik Roy, Pallav Kumar Das, Rishav Das, Akash Sengupta, Riyan Parag, Sibsankar Roy, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Avinav Choudhury, Bishal Roy, Mrinmoy Dutta, Mukhtar Hussain, Sunil Lachit
Bihar: Akash Raj, Babul Kumar, Gaurav Joshi, Sakibul Gani, Krishna Yadav, Malay Raj, Sachin Kumar, Bipin Saurabh (c) & (Wk), Abhijeet Saket, Amod Yadav, Suraj Kashyap
Chandigarh: Abhishek Singh, Arjun Azad, Gaurav Puri, Manan Vohra (c), Shivam Bhambri, Akash Sudan, Raj Bawa, Vishu Kashyap, Akshit Rana (Wk), Arjit Pannu (Wk), Bhagmender Lather, Karan Kaila, Mandeep Singh, Murugan Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma
Himachal Pradesh: Ekant Sen, Nikhil Gangta, Nitin Sharma, Prashant Chopra, Sumeet Verma, Akash Vasisht, Mayank Dagar, Pankaj Jaswal, Rishi Dhawan (c), Vinay Galetiya, Ankush Bains (Wk), Arpit Guleria, Ayush Jamwal, Kanwar Abhinay, Vaibhav Arora
Kerala: Ajnas M, Rohan Kunnummal, Sachin Baby, Salman Nizar, Abdul Basith, Jalaj Saxena, Shreyas Gopal, Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan, Vaisakh Chandran, Mohammed Azharuddeen (Wk), Sanju Samson (c) & (Wk), Varun Nayanar, Vishnu Vinod (Wk), Basil Thampi, KM Asif, Pathirikattu Midhun, Sijomon Joseph, Vinod Kumar
Odisha: Abhishek Yadav, Rakesh Pattnaik, Sandeep Pattnaik, Shantanu Mishra, Subhranshu Senapati, Swastik Samal, Debabrata Pradhan, Govinda Poddar (c), Kartik Biswal, Prayash Singh, Prabin Luha (Wk), Rajesh Dhuper (Wk), Harshit Rathod, Sunil Roul, Tarani Sa
Services: Rajat Paliwal, Shubham Rohilla, Vikas Hathwala, Arjun Sharma, Mohit Kumar, Mohit Rathee, Pulkit Narang, Nakul Sharma (Wk), Lakhan Singh, Nitin Tanwar, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Varun Choudhary, Vikas Yadav
Sikkim: Ashish Thapa, Nilesh Lamichaney, Pankaj Kumar Rawat, Sumit Singh, Ankur Malik, Lee Yong Lepcha, Palzor Tamang, Jeetendra Sharma, Md Saptulla, Sabin Chettri
Group C
Andhra Pradesh: Ashwin Hebbar, Dheeraj Kumar, Hanuma Vihari, Karan Shinde, Pinninti Tapaswi, Ricky Bhui, Shaik Rasheed, Yara Sandeep, Kavuri Saiteja, Manish Golamaru, KS Bharat (c) & (Wk), Cheepurapalli Stephen, Harishankar Reddy, Hemanth Reddy, Lalith Mohan, Prithvi Raj
Arunachal Pradesh: Aprameya Jaiswal, Ayush Awasthi (Wk), Aryan Sahani, Avinash Thapa, Techi Doria, Kumar Nyompu, Myendung Singpho, Yab Niya Niia, Neelam Obi (c), Sitesh Das, Divyanshu Yadav, Agnivesh Ayachi, Techi Neri, Techi Sonam, Nabam Hachang, Tana Teti, Yorjum Sera, Nabam Joshi, Licha John, Jay Bhavsar
Goa: Ishaan Gadekar, Kashyap Bakhale, Rahul Tripathi, Shubham Tari, Snehal Kauthankar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Darshan Misal, Deepraj Gaonkar, Lakshay Garg, Mohit Redkar, Krishnamurthy Siddharth (Wk), Rajashekhar Harikant (Wk), Arjun Tendulkar, Felix Alemao, Tunish Sawkar
Gujarat: Aarya Desai, Kshitij Patel, Priyank Panchal, Ripal Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Umang Kumar, Vishal Jaiswal, Urvil Patel (Wk), Arzan Nagwaswalla, Chintan Gaja, Hardik Patel, Hemang Patel, Piyush Chawla, Ravi Bishnoi, Shen Patel
Manipur: Al Bashid Muhammed, Basir Rahman, Chingakham Bidash, Johnson Singh, Kangabam Singh, Karnajit Yumnam, L Kishan Singha, Nitesh Sedai, Langlonyamba Meitan Keishangbam, Rex Rajkumar, Prafullomani Singh (Wk), Ajay Lamabam, Bikash Singh, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Sultan Karim
Punjab: Abhishek Sharma, Ramandeep Singh, Mayank Markande, Arshdeep Singh, Sanvir Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh (Wk), Siddarth Kaul, Mandeep Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Baltej Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Harpreet Brar, Prerit Dutta, Gaurav Chaudhary, Jassinder Singh, Naman Dhir
Railways: Ashutosh Sharma, Mohammad Saif, Nishant Kushwaha, Pratham Singh, Raj Choudhary, Shivam Chaudhary, Shubham Chaubey, Rahul Sharma, Vivek Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Upendra Yadav (Wk), Akash Pandey, Akshat Pandey, Karn Sharma, Susheel Kumar
Saurashtra: Aditya Jadeja, Hetvik Kotak, Jay Gohil, Samarth Vyas, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Chirag Jani, Parth Bhut, Prerak Mankad, Harvik Desai (Wk), Sheldon Jackson (Wk), Tarang Gohel (Wk), Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jaydev Unadkat, Kushang Patel, Pranav Karia, Sammar Gajjar, Yuvraj Chudasama
Group D
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran, Abhishek Chowdhury, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Sudip Gharami (c), Debopratim Halder, Karan Lal, Kaushik Maity, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abishek Porel (Wk), Agniv Pan (Wk), Shakir Gandhi, Akash Deep, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Pradipta Pramanik, Prayas Barman, Ravi Kumar
Jharkhand: Kumar Deobrat, Saurabh Tiwary, Vikash Vishal, Virat Singh (c), Anukul Roy, Vinayak Vikram, Kumar Kushagra, Pankaj Kumar (Wk), Bal Krishna, Rahul Shukla, Shahbaz Nadeem, Supriyo Chakraborty, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh
Maharashtra: Ankit Bawne, Kedar Jadhav (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Siddharth Mhatre, Arshin Kulkarni, Azim Kazi, Dhanraj Shinde, Satyajeet Bachhav, Taranjit Singh Dhillon, Vijay Pawale, Mandar Bhandari (Wk), Nikhil Naik (Wk), Rushabh Rathod (Wk), Pradeep Dadhe, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Vicky Ostwal
Puducherry: Akash Kargave, Karthikeyan Jayasundaram, Krishna Pandey, Marimuthu Vigneshwaran, Paras Dogra, Bhupender Chauhan, Damodaran Rohit, Fabid Ahmed, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Arun Karthik (Wk), Yash Avinash Jadhav, A Aravinddaraj, Bharat Sharma, Gurvinder Singh, Sagar Udeshi
Rajasthan: Aniket Choudhary, Arjit Gupta, Deepak Hooda, Deepak Chahar, Aditya Garhwal, Mukul Choudhary (Wk), Salman Faruk Khan, Khaleel Ahmed, Mahipal Lomror, Rahul Chahar, Abhijeet Tomar, Arafat Khan, Manav Suthar, Shubham Garhwal, Kunal Singh Rathore
Uttarakhand: Avneesh Sudha, Kunal Chandela, Piyush Joshi, Dikshanshu Negi, Mayank Mishra, Swapnil Singh, Aditya Tare (Wk), Akhil Rawat (Wk), Abhay Negi, Agrim Tiwari, Akash Madhwal, Himanshu Bisht, Rajan Kumar, Yuvraj Chaudhary
Vidarbha: Atharva Taide (c), Dhruv Shorey, Karun Nair, Mandar Mahale, Shubham Dubey, Aditya Sarwate, Harsh Dubey, Lalit Yadav, Akshay Wadkar (Wk), Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Akshay Karnewar, Darshan Nalkande, Saurabh Dubey
Group E
Delhi: Ayush Badoni, Himmat Singh, Jonty Sidhu, Kshitiz Sharma, Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull (c), Dev Lakra, Lalit Yadav, Pranshu Vijayran, Anuj Rawat (Wk), Lakshay Thareja, Harshit Rana, Hrithik Shokeen, Ishant Sharma, Mayank Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Shivank Vashisht, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Sharma
Karnataka: Abhinav Manohar, Devdutt Padikkal, Manish Pandey, Mayank Agarwal (c), Ravikumar Samarth, Krishnappa Gowtham, Manoj Bhandage, Shubhang Hegde, BR Sharath (Wk), Krishnan Shrijith (Wk), LR Chethan (Wk), Prasidh Krishna, Pravin Dubey, Vasuki Koushik, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vyshak Vijay Kumar
Madhya Pradesh: Parth Sahani, Rishabh Chouhan, Rajat Patidar, Shubham Sharma (c), Sagar Solanki, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajay Rohera (Wk), Rakesh Thakur (Wk), Arshad Khan, Avesh Khan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Kumar Kartikeya, Mihir Hirwani, Rahul Batham, Saransh Jain
Nagaland: Hokaito Zhimomi, Rongsen Jonathan, Sedezhalie Rupero, Imliwati Lemtur, Joshua Ozukum, Nagaho Chishi, RS Jaganath Sinivas, Oren Ngullie (Wk), Sumit Kumar (Wk), Chopise Hopongkyu, Khrievitso Kense, Tahmeed Rahman, Tzudir Moakumzuk
Tamil Nadu: Hari Nishaanth, Sai Sudharsan, Shahrukh Khan, Baba Aparajith, Sanjay Yadav, Vijay Shankar, Washington Sundar (c), Ajitesh G (Wk), Narayan Jagadeesan (Wk), Kuldeep Sen, M Mohammed, Sai Kishore, Sandeep Warrier, T Natarajan, Varun Chakaravarthy
Tripura: Bikramjit Debnath, Bikramkumar Das, Ganesh Satish, Nirupam Sen Chowdhary, Rajat Dey, Sudip Chatterjee, Viki Saha, Amit Ali, Manisankar Murasingh, Parvez Sultan, Arkaprabha Sinha, Nirupam Sen, Wriddhiman Saha (c) & (Wk), Abhijit Sarkar, Ajay Sarkar, Chiranjit Paul, Danveer Singh, Sanjay Majumder, Sankar Paul, Subham Ghosh
Uttar Pradesh: Abhishek Goswami, Madhav Kaushik, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh (c), Sameer Rizvi, Prince Yadav, Aaradhya Yadav, Dhruv Jurel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasmer Dhankar, Kartik Tyagi, Mohsin Khan, Shiva Singh, Yash Dayal
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