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Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021: Teams, Squads, Venues, Schedule and everything you need to know about the tournament

The domestic T20 tournament Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy will kickstart the Indian Cricket’s curtailed domestic season, which has been marred by the rise of covid-19 in the country. The tournament would be played in empty stadiums with all the precautions and protocols for bio-bubble in place. 

Groups

The tournament has been divided into two stages i.e. the Group stage and the Knockout stage. While the group stage games would be played among the 38 teams divided into five elite and one plate groups, the knockout stage would involve the quarter and the semi-finals. 

Venues

The group stages would be played across six venues with Bengaulkiuru hosting group A which involves home team Karnataka, while Kolkata will host Group B which has the home team Bengal in it. Similarly, Baroda will host Group C games while Indore would be hosting the Group D games with Madhya Pradesh as part of the group. Mumbai will host the Group E games and Chennai will be responsible for Plate Group matches. 

Format

Each team in the elite and the plate groups plays the other in a round-robin format and the top teams from each group qualify to the Quarter Finals. However, even after each top team securing a Quarterfinal berth, two spaces would remain and that would go to the two best second position finishers in the elite groups. 

Schedule

The group stage matches would be played from 10th to 19th January at various venues while the knockout stage at the Motera stadium in Ahmedabad would begin from 26th January onwards. 

Squads

All the teams have named their squads for the tournament and citing the covid-19 situation, teh BCCI allowed teams to carry 20 players and then increased it further to 22 to make sure that in case of any emergency players are replaced without breaking the bubble. 

Following is the list of the teams in various groups and their SMA squads. 

Group A

Punjab     

Mandeep Singh (Captain) Gurkeerat Singh Mann (Vice-Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Anmolpreet Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Harpreet Brar, Siddarth Kaul, Gitansh Khera, Krishan, Alang Anmol Malhotra, Mayank Markande, Rohan Marwaha, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Sanvir Singh, Barinder Sran 

Karnataka

Karun Nair (C), Pavan Deshpande (VC), Devdutt Padikkal, Roham Kadam, KV Siddharth, KL Shrijith, BR Sharath, Anirudha Joshi, Shreyas Gopal, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jagadeesha Suchith, Pravin Dubey, Abhimanyu Mithun, Prasidh Krishna, Prateek Jain, V Koushik, Ronit More, Darshan MB, Manoj Bhandage, Shubhang Hegde.

Jammu & Kashmir    

Parvez Rasool (C), Shubham Khajuria, Ahmed Omar Bandey, Qamran Iqbal, Suryansh Raina (WK), Abdul Samad, Puneet Kumar, Dorjey Kalyan, Abid Mushtaq, Shubhman Singh Pundir, Nawaz Ul Muneer (WK), Jiyaad Nazir Magrey, Henan Nazir Malik, Usman Pandit, Ram Dayal, Auqib Nabi, Aamir Aziz, Umran Malik, Mujtaba Yusuf and Umar Nazir and five stand bye players namely: Paras Sharma, Ankush Bandral, Vivrant Sharma, Yasir Ahmed and Adil Rashid.

Uttar Pradesh

Priyam Garg (captain), Karn Sharma (vice-captain), Suresh Raina, Rinku Singh, Madhav Kaushik, Samarth Singh, Shubham Choubey, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohsin Khan, Shivam Mavi, Shiva Singh, Shanu Saini

Railways    

Mrunal Devdhar, Dinesh Mor, Harsh Tyagi, Amit Kuila, T Pradeep, Pratham Singh, Vikrant Rajput, Ananta Saha, Himanshu Sangwan, Saurabh Singh, Kanishk Seth, Karn Sharma, Shivendra Singh, Dhrushant Soni, Navneet Virk

Tripura

Manisankar Murasingh (Captain)Ajoy Sarkar (Vice-Captain), Kaushal Acharjee, Joydeep Banik, Udiyan Bose, Saurabh Das, Rajat Dey, Bishal Ghosh, Subham Ghosh, Milind Kumar, Pratyush Singh, Rana Dutta, Tushar Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Samrat Singha, Arkaprabha Sinha

Group B

Jharkhand    

Ishan Kishan (c), Pankaj Kumar, Kumar Deobrat, Saurav Tiwari, Uttakarsh Singh,  Anand Singh, Virat Singh (vc), Vikash Vishal, Anukul Roy, Shahbaaz Nadeem, Sonu Kumar Singh, Varun Aaron, Rahul Shukla, Monu Kumar Singh, Vivekanand Tiwari, Bala Krishna, Aashish Kumar, Satya Setu

Bengal    

Anustup Majumdar (captain), Shreevats Goswami (vice-captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Manoj Tiwary, Sudi Chatterjee, Ishan Porel, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Vivek Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arnab Nandi, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Abhishek Das, Mohammed Kaif, Aritra Chatterjee, Suvankar Bal, Writtick Chatterjee, Prayas Ray Barman, Kaif Ahmed, Ravi Kant Singh.

Odisha

Subhranshu Senapati (Captain), Pratik Das, Rajesh Dhuper, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Pappu Ray, Govinda Poddar, Suryakant Pradhan, Rajesh Mohanty, Abhishek Raut, Biplab Samantray, Shantanu Mishra, Ankit Yadav, Gourav Chaudhary, Suekesh Heera, Walter Topo, Praveen Loha, Tarini Sa, Ankitkar Jaiswal, Sunil Roul, Ashish Rai

Tamil Nadu    

Dinesh Karthik (c), Vijay Shankar (vc), B Aparajith, B Indrajith, M Shahrukh Khan, C Hari Nishaanth, KB Arun Karthik, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, N Jagadeesan, Aswin Crist, M Mohammed, G Periyasamy, Sandeep Warrier, J Kousik, R Sonu Yadav, M Ashwin, R Sai Kishore, M Siddharth, L Suryapprakash, R S Jaganath Srinivas

Hyderabad    

Tanmay Agarwal Captain), Tilak Varma, Abhirath Reddy, Himalay Agarwal, B Sandeep (Vice-Captain), Buddhi Rahul, Sai Pragnay Reddy, Kolla Sumanth, CV Milind, T Ravi Teja, Ajay Dev Goud, Yudveer Singh, Tanay Tyagarajan, Mickil Jaiswal, Hitesh Yadav, Rakesh Yadav,  Prateek Reddy Rakshann Reddi, Karthikeya Kak, MSR Charan

Assam    

Rishav Das (Captain), Abhishek Thakuri (Wicket-keeper), Riyan Parag, Rajjakuddin Ahmed, Arup Das, Amlanjyoti Das, Pritam Das, Pallavkumar Das, Mrinmoy Dutta, Saahil Jain, Mukhtar Hussain, Rahul Singh, Amit Sinha

Group C

Gujarat    

Axar Patel (Captain), Priyank Panchal, Piyush Chawla, Chintan Gaja, Chirag Gandhi, Devang Gandhi, Devang Gandhi, Roosh Kalaria, Kshitij Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Jayveer Parmar, Hardik Patel, Karan Patel, Ripal Patel, Tejas Patel, Umang Patel, Urvil Patel, Priyesh Patel, Dhruv Raval

Maharashtra    

Rahul Tripathi (captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Naushad Shaikh, Kedar Jadhav, Ranjeet Nikam, Azim Kazi, Nikhil Naik (wicketkeeper), Vishant More (wicketkeeper), Satyajeet Bachhav, Taranjeet Singh Dhillon, Shamshuzma Kazi, Pradeep Dadhe, Mukesh Choudhary, Manoj Ingle, Divyang Hingankar, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Jagdish Zope, Swapnil Gugale, Dhanraj Pardeshi, Sunny Pandit.

Chattisgarh    

Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare, Anand Rao, Harpreet Singh Bhatia (Captain), Jeevanjot Singh, M. Binny Semual, M. Ravi Kiran, Mo. Shahbaz Hussain (wicket-keeper), Ambienthar, Rishab Tiwari, Sanidhya Hurkat, Shashank Chandrakar, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Kharwar, Subham Singh, Subham Aggarwal, Saurabh Majumdar, Sumit Ruikar, Vishal Singh Kushwaha, and Virpratap Singh.

Uttarakhand    

Iqbal Abdulla (Captain),  Ashish Chaudhary, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Jay Bista, Kunal Chandela, Dhanraj Sharma, Samad Fallah, Gaurav Singh, Girish Rauturi, Karn Kaushal, Akash Madhwal, Mayank Mishra, Dikshanshu Negi, Piyush Joshi, Saurabh Rawat, Arya Sethi, Vijay Sharma, Agrim Tiwari

Himachal Pradesh    

RI Thakur, Kanwar Abhinay, Amit Kumar, Vaibhav Arora, Ankush Bedi, Prashant Chopra, Mayank Dagar, Rishi Dhawan, Arpit Guleria, Pankaj Jaiswal, Ayush Jamwal, Nitin Sharma, Abhimanyu Rana, Ekant Sen, Akash Vasisht

Baroda

Krunal Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Kedar Devdhar, Ninad Rathwa, Smit Patel, Vishnu Solanki, Abhimanyu Rajput, Dhruv Patel, Atit Sheth, Babasafi Pathan, L Meriwala, Mohit Mongia, Bhanu Pania, Kartik Kakade, Chintal Gandhi, Pradeep Yadav, Soyeb Sopariya, Ansh Patel, Parth Kohli, Bhargav Bhatt, Pratik Ghodadra, Pratyush Kumar.

Group D

Goa    

Amit Verma (Captain) Amogh Desai, Vishambar Kahlon, Maliksab Shirur, Vaibhav Govekar, Ishaan Gadekar, Heramb Parab, Darshan Misal, Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Shubham Desai, Vijesh Prabhudesai, Ashoke Dinda, Felix Antonio Alemao, Nihal Surlaker, Eknath Dinesh Kerkar, Suyash Prabhudesai, Lakshay Arunkumar Garg, Amulya G Pandrekar and Aditya Kaushik.

Madhya Pradesh    

Parth Sahani (Capt), Rajat Patidar (Vice Capt.),  Arpit Gaud    Himanshu Mantri, Rishabh Chouhan, Abhishek Bhandari, Venkatesh Iyer, Rakesh Thakur, Saransh Jain, Ankit Sharma, Mihir HIrwani, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Surendra Malviya, Ishwar Pandey, Shantanu Raghuwanshi, Arshad Khan,  Puneet Datey, Ashutosh Sharma, Kumar Kartikey

Rajasthan    

Ashok Menaria (captain) Khaleel Ahmed, Akash Singh, Rajesh Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Aniket Choudhary, Rajat Choudhary, Chandrapal Singh, Aditya Garhwal, Arjit Gupta, Salman Khan, Yash Kothari, Ankit Lamba, Mahipal Lomror, Manender Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Tanveer Ul-Haq

Saurashtra    

Jaydev Unadkat (c), Chirag Jani, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Vishwarajsinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Prerak Mankad, Divyarajsinh Chauhan, Vandit Jivrajani, Parth Bhut, Agnivesh Ayachi, Himalay Barad, Kushang Patel, Parth Chauhan, Devang Karamta, Kunal Karamchandani, Avi Barot, Harvik Desai, Arpit Vasavada, Samarth Vyas, Yuvraj Chudasama

Services    

Arun Bamal, Varun Choudhary, Anshul Gupta, Vikas Hathwala, Lakhan Singh, Mohit Kumar, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Navneet Singh, Nitin Yadav, Rajat Paliwal, Diwesh Pathania, Rahul Singh, Raushan Raj, Ravi Chauhan, Hardik Sethi, Sumit Singh, Nitin Tanwar, Nakul Verma, Vikas Yadav

Vidarbha    

Ganesh Satish (captain), Jitesh Sharma, Atharva Taide, Akshay Wadkar, Siddhesh Wath, Rishabh Rathod, Yash Rathod, Apoorv Wankhede, Akshay Karnewar, Akshay Wakhare, Nachiket Bhute, Darshan Nalkande, Mohit Raut, Yash Thakur, Aditya Thakare, Mohit Kale, Lalit Yadav, Raj Chaudhari. Coach: Trevor Gonsalves.

Group E

Andhra Pradesh    

Ambati Rayudu (Captain), Srikar Bharat (Wicket-Keeper/Vice-Captain), Siraparapu Ashish, Ashwin Hebbar, Ricky Bui, Dhruva Kumar Reddy, Girinath Reddy, CR Gnaneshwa, SK Ismail, Karthik Rama, Kranthi Kumar, Lalith Mohan, Manish Golamaru, Naren Reddy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Prasanth Kumar, Harishankar Reddy, KV Sasikanth, Shoaib Md Khan, Cheepurapalli Stephen

Delhi    

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Ishant Sharma, Nitish Rana, Himmat Singh, Kshitiz Sharma, Jonty Sidhu, Hiten Dalal, Lalit Yadav, Shivank Vashishth, Manjot Kalra, Siddhant Sharma, Anuj Rawat (wk), Pradeep Sangwan, Simarjeet Singh, Pawan Negi, Ayush Badoni, Vaibhav Kandpal, Lakshay Thareja (wk), Pawan Suyal, Karan Dagar

Haryana    

Ankit Kumar (c), Chaitanya Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ajit Chahal, Pramod Chandila, Arun Chaprana, Ashish Hooda, Kapil Hooda, Tinu Kundu, Aman Kumar, Sanjay Pahal, Harshal Patel, Himanshu Rana, Shubham Rohilla, Nitin Saini, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Parmod Sharma, Shivam Chauhan, Guntashveer Singh, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Yashu Sharma, Sumit Kumar

Kerala    

Sanju Samson (c), Robin Uthappa, Sachin Baby (vc), Sreesanth, Basil Thampi, Jalaj Saxena, Vishnu Vinod, Mohammed Azharuddin, Rahul P, Rohan Kunnumel, Salman Nizar, Nideesh MD, Asif KM, Akshay Chandran, Sijo Mon Joseph, Mithun S, Abhishek Mohan, Vatsal Govind, Anand Joseph, Vinoop Manohar, Mithun PK, Akshay KC, Sreeroop

Mumbai    

Suryakumar Yadav (c), Aditya Tare (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aakarshit Gomel, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Shivam Dube, Shubham Ranjane, Sujit Nayak, Sairaj Patil, Tushar Deshpande, Dhawal Kulkarni, Minad Manjrekar, Prathamesh Dake, Atharva Ankolekar, Shashank Attarde, Shams Mulani, Hardik Tamore, Akash Parkar, Sufiyan Shaikh

Puducherry

Damodaren Rohit (Captain), Subramanian Anand, Paras Dogra, Vikneshwaran Marimuthu, Thamaraikannan Parandaman, Sheldon Jackson, S Karthik, A Aravindaraj, Fabid Ahmed, Iqlas Naha, Pankaj Singh, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi, Ragupathy

Plate Group

Arunachal Pradesh    

Neelam Obi (c), Rahul Dalal, Techi Doria, Karkir Taye, Rakesh Kumar, Nabam Tempol, Akhilesh Sahani, Takam Tallam, Yab Niya, Kamsha Yangfo, Song Tacho, Kengo Goken Bam, Techi Neri, Samarth Seth, Shashwat Kohli

Bihar

Ashutosh Aman (c), Mohit Kumar, MD Rahmatullah, Shasheem Rathour, Sachin Kumar, Amod Yadav, Babul Kumar, Mangal Mahrour, Samar Quadri, Vikash Ranjan, Yashasvi Rishav, Vikash Yadav, S Gani    

Chandigarh    

Manan Vohra (c), Gaurav Gambhir, Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Bipul Sharma, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Gaurav Puri, Gurinder Singh, Jagjit Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Anirudh Kanwar, Sarul Kanwar, Uday Kaul, Ankit Kaushik, Kunal Mahajan, Jaskaranvir Singh

Manipur    

Ahmed Shah (wk), Langlonyamba Keishangbam, Bishwash Singh, Kshetrimayum Narisingh (wk), Nitesh Sedai, Gemson Singh, Lamabam Singh, Prafullomani Singh, Rex Singh, Sagatpam Jayanta, Thokchom Kishan, Sheiteendra Singh, Karnajit Yumnam

Meghalaya    

Abhay Negi, Aditya Singhania, Chengkham Sangma, Larry Sangma, Akask Kumar Choudhary, Dippu Sangma, Yogesh Tiwari, Rohit Shah, Anish Charak, Wanlambok Nongkhlaw, Kilco Sangma, Shellingstar Thabah, Punit Bisht, Sanjay Yadav, Ravi Teja, Shiva Sangma, Wellmanson Passah, Shaisngi Lyngdoh

Mizoram    

Pratik Desai (c), Taruwar Kohli, G Lalbiakvela, Lalhmangaiha, K Lalhmingmawia, Lalhruaizela, Khawlhring Lalremruata, KB Pawan, Parvez Ahmed, Andrew Vanlalhruaia, K Vanlalruata, Hmar Zothanchhunga, Bobby Zothansanga, Lalnunkima Varte, Lalhruai Ralte, Darremsanga, Lalfakzuala Renthlei, Sumit Lama

Nagaland    

Rongsen Jonathan (c), Hokaito Zhimomi, Stuart Binny, Chetan Bist, Chopise Hopongkyu, Jala uddin, Imliwati Lemtur, Shrikant Mundhe, Nagaho Chishi, Sedezhalie Rupero, Joshua Ozukum, Tahmeed Rahman, Mughavi Wotsa

Sikkim

Ajay Kumar Pradhan, Anureet Singh, Ashish Thapa, Bhusan Subba, Bibek Diyali, Dinesh Kumar Rai, James Lepcha, Lee Yong Lepcha, (V. Captain), Mandup Bhutia, Md Ronak, Md Saptulla, Nilesh Lamichaney, Nitesh Kumar Gupta, Padam Bdr Limboo, Palzor Tamang, Pritam Nirala, Rajiv Malay Darjee, Robin Bist (Captain), Tashi Bhalla, Varun Sood

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