Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 is set to start from 16th October and will continue till November 6, 2023.

38 domestic teams will fight it out in the domestic tournament. This is the 16th edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT), the T20 domestic tournament which generally kickstarts the new domestic season in India.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 Teams

38 teams are divided in Five groups. Each team will play one match against the remaining teams of the group.

Group A: Haryana, Baroda, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Hyderabad, Mizoram, Mumbai, Jammu and Kashmir.

Group B: Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Chandigarh, Odisha, Sikkim, Services.

Group C: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Manipur, Punjab, Railways, Saurashtra.

Group D: Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Vidarbha.

Group E: Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 Format

There will be group-stage matches. There will be 2 pre-quarter finals, followed by the final knockout stages in the competition - quarter final, semifinal and the Final. All the knockout stage matches will be played across the two stadiums in Chandigarh.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 Points Table

Group A

Team	Played	Win	Loss	NR	Pts	NRR
1. Mumbai	7	6	1	0	24	+1.983
2. Baroda	7	6	1	0	24	+1.583
3. Hyderabad	7	6	1	0	24	+1.371
4. Haryana	7	3	4	0	12	+0.988
5. Chattisgarh	7	3	4	0	12	+0.005
6. Jammu & Kashmir	7	3	4	0	12	-0.431
7. Mizoram	7	1	6	0	4	-2.291
8. Meghalaya	7	0	7	0	0	-2.932

Group B

Team	Played	Win	Loss	NR	Pts	NRR
1. Kerala	7	6	1	0	24	+2.052
2. Himachal Pradesh	7	5	2	0	20	+1.813
3. Assam	7	5	2	0	20	+1.138
4. Odisha	7	4	3	0	16	+0.453
5. Services	7	4	3	0	16	+0.444
6. Chandigarh	7	3	4	0	12	+0.569
7. Bihar	7	1	6	0	4	-1.122
8. Sikkim	7	0	7	0	0	-5.387

Group C

Team	Played	Win	Loss	NR	Pts	NRR
1. Punjab	7	6	1	0	24	+3.727
2. Saurashtra	7	5	2	0	20	+2.103
3. Gujarat	7	5	2	0	20	+1.986
4. Railways	7	4	3	0	16	+0.748
5. Goa	7	4	3	0	16	+0.747
6. Andhra Pradesh	7	3	4	0	12	+0.167
7. Manipur	7	1	6	0	4	-3.067
8. Arunachal Pradesh	7	0	7	0	0	-6.946

Group D

Team	Played	Win	Loss	NR	Pts	NRR
1. Vidarbha	6	4	2	0	16	+0.913
2. Bengal	6	4	2	0	16	+0.404
3. Jharkhand	6	4	2	0	16	+0.154
4. Rajasthan	6	3	2	1	14	+0.453
5. Maharashtra	6	3	3	0	12	+0.487
6. Uttarakhand	6	2	4	0	8	-0.030
7. Puducherry	6	0	5	1	2	-2.660

Group E

Team	Played	Win	Loss	NR	Pts	NRR
1. Delhi	6	5	0	1	22	+2.973
2. Uttar Pradesh	6	3	2	1	14	+1.816
3. Karnataka	6	3	2	1	14	+1.358
4. Madhya Pradesh	6	3	2	1	14	+0.181
5. Tamil Nadu	6	3	1	1	14	-0.282
6. Tripura	6	1	5	0	4	-2.387
7. Nagaland	6	0	5	1	2	-3.226

SMAT 2023 Venues

The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 is being played across 10 venues in five cities.

City	Venue 1	Venue 2
Jaipur	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	KL Saini Ground
Ranchi	JSCA Oval Ground	JSCA International Stadium
Chandigarh	MYS Intl Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur	IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali
Mumbai	DY Patil Sports Academy	Bandra Kurla Complex
Dehradun	Kasiga College Ground	Abhimanyu Cricket Academy

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 Knockout Schedule

10 teams have qualified for the knockout stages of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 season.

Mumbai, Punjab, Vidarbha, Kerala and Delhi have gone straight to the quarterfinals. Along with them, Baroda has also joined as a direct quarter-final entrant after finishing best among the 2nd placed teams.

Four other second-placed teams, viz. Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Bengal have qualified for the pre-quarter finals. The remaining 28 teams have crashed out of the tournament.

SMAT 2023 Pre-Quarter Finals (October 31)

Match 1 - Gujarat vs Uttar Pradesh (11 am IST)

Match 2 - Assam vs Bengal (4:30 pm IST)

SMAT 2023 Quarter Finals (November 2)

Mumbai vs Baroda (9 am IST)
Punjab vs TBC (11 am IST)
Delhi vs Vidarbha (1:30 pm IST)
Kerala vs TBC (4:30 pm IST)

SMAT 2023 Semifinals (November 4)

SMAT 2023 Final (November 6)

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 Stats

Here are the latest stats from the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-

Most Runs

Player	Team	Runs	Average
Riyan Parag	Assam	440	110
Bipin Saurabh	Bihar	420	70
Abhishek Sharma	Punjab	396	56.6
Vishnu Vinod	Kerala	346	57.7
Harvik Desai	Saurashtra	336	67.2

Most Wickets

Player	Team	Wickets	Average
T Ravi Teja	Hyderabad	19	10.11
Suyash Sharma	Delhi	15	4.47
Atit Sheth	Baroda	15	10.47
Tushar Deshpande	Mumbai	15	12.13
Debabrata Pradhan	Odisha	15	12.73

Highest Scores

Player	Team	Score	Balls	Strike Rate	Against
Tilak Varma	Hyderabad	121	69	175.36	Baroda
Subhranshu Senapati	Odisha	119	54	220.37	Assam
Abhishek Sharma	Punjab	112	51	219.61	Andhra
Abhishek Sharma	Punjab	112	56	200	Gujarat
Vishnu Vinod	Kerala	109	62	175.81	Services

Story first published: Monday, October 16, 2023, 18:53 [IST]

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