Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23: The prestigious SMAT 2022-23 is all set to be played from October 11 to November 5. India’s prestigious tournament will be a blockbuster with leading players of India’s domestic cricket battling out for the coveted trophy. They will try to prove their prowess in the domestic arena to get a ticket to India’s National team. The 2021 edition of the tournament was won by Tamil Nadu after defeating Karnataka by four wickets in the final.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is India’s premier Domestic Tournament which was started by the BCCI in the year 2006. The tournament is named after former Indian cricket Syed Mushtaq Ali, who is India’s first cricketer to score a century outside Indian soil. Paytm is the official title sponsor of this tournament.
A lot of prolific players such as Shivam Dube, Devdutt Padikkal, Sharuk Khan, Varun Chakravarthy, Lukman Meriwala, and Mohammed Azharuddeen have been picked by the IPL teams on the basis of their outstanding performances in the prestigious Tournament. Therefore SMAT is regarded as the ladder for players to prove their prowess & get qualified for International cricket & big T20 Leagues.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23 Format:
The prestigious Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23 will have 38 teams divided into five different elite groups. Eight teams each will be present in Groups A, B, and C while seven teams will feature in Groups E and F. The tournament will be played across six cities such as Jaipur, Lucknow, Mohali, Indore & Lucknow. While the knockout matches will be played in Kolkata.
Let’s have a look at the Groups in the SMAT 2022-23:
Elite A (Rajkot): Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Mumbai, Railways, Assam, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Vidarbha
Elite B (Jaipur): Goa, Hyderabad, Manipur, Delhi, Puducherry, Punjab, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh
Elite C (Mohali): Haryana, Jammu, and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Services, Arunachal Pradesh,
Elite D (Indore): Baroda, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Saurashtra, Andhra Pradesh,
Elite E (Lucknow): Chandigarh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Bengal,
SMAT 2022-23: Winners of All Seasons
Tamil Nadu is the winner of the inaugural edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Notably, they have also won SMAT 2021. None of the teams has managed to win the competition more than two times. As per the titles clinched Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Baroda are the joint-successful teams of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy with two trophies each.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23 Schedule
The League stage of the SMAT 2022-23 will be played from the 11th to the 22nd of October 2022 while the knockout stages will be played from the 30th of October to the 5th of November. Let’s have a look at the entire schedule of the tournament.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23: Full Squads
Bengal
Writtick Chatterjee, Abhishek Das, Ritwik Roy Choudhary, Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sudip Gharami, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Agniva Pan (wicketkeeper), Abishek Porel ( wicketkeeper), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramanik, Karan Lal, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Ishan Porel, Sujit Kumar Yadav, Sayan Shekhar Mondal, Ravi Kumar, Akash Gathak, Geet Puri.
Delhi
Himmat Singh (VC), Hiten Dalal, Yash Dhull, Anuj Rawat (wk),Nitish Rana (captain), Hrithik Shokeen, Ayush Badoni, Lalit Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Simarjeet Singh, Mayank Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Shivank Vashisht, Dev Lakra, Pranshu Vijayaran,Pradeep Sangwan,
Hyderabad
N Tilak Varma (vc), T Ravi Teja, Rahul Buddi, Prateek Reddy (Wicket-Keeper), Tanmay Agarwal (captain), CV Milind, Tanay Tyagarajan, Sai Pragnay Reddy (Wicket-keeper), Mickhil Jaiswal, Rakshan Reddi, Mohammed Siraj, MSR Charan, Bhagat Varma, Alankrit Agarwal, Jayram Reddy, B Punnaiah, Trishank Gupta, Shreyas Valla, P Nitesh Reddy, E Sanketh,
Jammu and Kashmir
Abdul Samad (vc), Qamran Iqbal, Shubham Khajuria, Henan Malik, Jatin Wadhwan, Fazil Rashid(WK), Shubham Pundir (C), Shivansh Sharma (WK), Parvez Rasool, Nasir Lone, Auqib Nabi, Abid Mushtaq, Yudhvir Singh, Sunil Kumar, Mujtaba Yousuf,
Jharkhand
Shahbaz Nadeem (vc), Nazim Siddique, Kumar Deobrat, Kumar Suraj, Virat Singh (captain), Pankaj Kumar (wk), Manishi, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Anukul Roy, Vivekanand Tiwary, Aayush Bhardwaj, Rajandeep Singh, Vikash Singh, Rahul Shukla, Supriyo Chakraborty, Bala Krishna,
Karnataka
Devdutt Padikkal, Manish Pandey, Abhinav Manohar, Mayank Agarwal (captain), Chethan LR, Manoj Bhandage, K Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, Luvnith Sisodia, Sharath BR, Koushik V, Vyshak V, Kaverappa, Venkatesh M, Jagadeesa Suchith.
Kerala
Rohan S. Kunnummal, Vishnu Vinod, Shoun Roger, Sachin Baby, Sanju Samson (captain), Abdul Basith, Krishna Prasad, Sijomon Joseph, S. Midhun, Vyshak Chandran, Manu Krishnan, Mohammed Azharudeen, Basil Thampi, N.P. Basil, K.M. Asif, Sachin Suresh, F. Fanoos,
Mumbai
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan, Shardul Thakur, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Prashant Solanki, Dhaval Kulkarni, Hardik Tamore (wk), Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Aman Khan, Sairaj Patil, Mohit Awasthi.
Odisha
Abhishek Raut (captain), Aasirwad Swain (wk), Shantanu Mishra, Anshuman Rath, Sujit Lenka (wk), Rakesh Pattnaik, Mushtaq Beg, Suryakant Pradhan, Debabrata Pradhan, Om T Munde, Subhranshu Senapati, Sameer Mohanty, Sushil Barik, Jayanta Behera, Tarini Sa, Rajesh Mohanty.
Punjab
Prabhsimran Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Abhishek Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Singh Brar, Mayank Markande, Siddharth Kaul, Ramandeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Ashwani, Sanvir Singh, Pukhraj Mann, Anmol Malhotra.
Tamil Nadu
M S Washington Sundar (vice-captain), B Sai Sudharsan, B Aparajith (captain), T Natarajan, M Shahrukh Khan, R Sanjay Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Varun Chakravarthy, J Suresh Kumar, C Hari Nishaanth, R Silambarasan, M Ashwin, G Ajitesh, M Mohammad and Abhishek Tanwar, R Sai Kishore, M Siddharth
Uttar Pradesh
Rinku Singh, Priyam Garg, Shivam Mavi, Kartik Tyagi, Karan Sharma (captain), Shivam Sharma, Sameer Choudhary, Sameer Rizvi, Hardeep Singh, Divyansh, Prince Yadav, Yash Dayal, Akshdeep Nath and Shiva Singh, Aryan Juyal.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23: Live Streaming Details
The SMAT 2022-23 will be live telecasted on the Star Sports Network in India & will be live streamed on the Disney+ Hotstar App.
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