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The final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 was played on 18 December in Pune. Jharkhand had defeated Haryana by 69 runs.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy will start from today. 38 teams will participate in it. 32 teams will play in the elite and 6 teams in the plate division. The final of the tournament will be held on 6 December.
This time 15 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi will captain Bihar. Experienced players like Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma will also play. Last time champion Jharkhand will try to defend the title.
Suryakumar Yadav has been made the captain of Mumbai. Under his captaincy, India won the T-20 World Cup.
38 teams will play in two divisions
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is India’s domestic T20 tournament. It is organized by BCCI. Teams playing Ranji Trophy participate in it. This time 38 teams have been divided into two divisions.
There will be 32 teams in the elite division. They have been placed in four groups and there will be 8 teams in each group. Each team will play the remaining 7 teams of its group. The top 2-2 teams of all four groups will reach the Super League.
In the Super League, 8 teams will be divided into two groups of four each. Every team will play 3 matches. The top teams of both the groups will reach the finals. The final of the elite division will be held on 6 December.
6 teams will participate in the plate division. All the teams will play each other and each team will have 5 league matches. The top 2 teams of the points table will play the final on 24 November.
Vaibhav will captain the senior team of Bihar for the first time
15 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi will captain the senior team of Bihar for the first time. He has been made the captain for the first two matches of the tournament. Bihar’s first match will be against Saurashtra on 14th November and the second against Railways on 16th November.
Vaibhav was the vice-captain of the team last season. Then he made the record of being the youngest person to score a century in the tournament. After the first two matches, he will leave for the Rising Stars Asia Cup with India-A.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi during practice in Indore.
Surya will captain Mumbai, Sanju will be the leader of Kerala.
Former Indian T-20 team captain Suryakumar Yadav will captain Mumbai. Mumbai has won this trophy twice in 2022 and 2024. The team also includes Shivam Dubey, Shardul Thakur, Sarfaraz Khan and Tushar Deshpande.
Sanju Samson will lead the 18-member Kerala team. Experienced fast bowler Mohammed Shami will play for the Bengal team. Bengal will be captained by Abhimanyu Easwaran.
Ishant Sharma will return to Delhi’s T-20 team. They will play under the captaincy of Ayush Badoni. Tamil Nadu’s team includes former number-1 T-20 bowler Varun Chakravarthy and fast bowler T Natarajan.
Ishaan Kishan will not play
Jharkhand won the trophy for the first time by defeating Haryana by 69 runs in the final of the 2025-26 season. Ishan Kishan had scored 101 runs in 49 balls in the final. He also won Player of the Series after scoring 517 runs in 10 matches in the entire tournament. He had two centuries to his name.
After this performance, Ishaan got a chance to return to the Indian team. He was selected for the 2026 T20 World Cup. This time Jharkhand has not given place to Ishaan in the announced team. The team will be captained by Anukul Roy.
Ishan Kishan scored a century in the 2025 Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
The competition started in 2006
This tournament started in the 2006–07 season. Earlier its name was Inter-State T-20 Championship. It was later named after former Indian Test cricketer Syed Mushtaq Ali.
Syed Mushtaq Ali was the first Indian batsman to score a Test century outside the country. In the first season, Tamil Nadu won the title under the captaincy of Dinesh Karthik.
In 2012–13, Super League was used instead of knockout. In 2016, BCCI decided to conduct the competition on the basis of zonal teams. However, Ranji Trophy teams were re-inducted from 2017–18.
Tamil Nadu is the most successful team, won the title 3 times
Tamil Nadu is the most successful team in the history of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He has won the title three times.
Big records of the tournament
Other records of the team also make this competition special. Karnataka has registered 15 consecutive wins including league matches. Jammu and Kashmir has a record of 22 consecutive defeats.
Baroda had registered the biggest win by defeating Sikkim by 263 runs. Win by 10 wickets has been recorded 30 times. Jharkhand had won against Tripura with 100 balls to spare. This is the biggest win in terms of balls left.
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